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4.04 AVERAGE
4.04 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
dark
funny
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
funny
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
what
adventurous
dark
funny
fast-paced
adventurous
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
funny
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Brilliant, for some reason I’ve found myself bouncing off slaughterhouse five but read this (partially due to necessity) in around an hour and half. Such a brilliant look at free will, the apathy of technology and those that create it, the shame of people who don’t “care about people” and how destructive this ideology is and so much more.
I adore Bokonism, such a brilliant concept written so well and so humorously but at its heart just a way to calm and help a populous that has no reason for carrying on. Optimistic nihilism at its best. The shadow of Felix throughout the first half of the book is imprinted extremely well, you can feel the weight of him and the horrible things he has done in the name of boredom through the town that raised him and the kids he didn’t raise at all.
Vonneguts writing style is as casually brilliant in this as it was in Sirens of Titan, I don’t want to echo myself but it’s so insanely impressive the way he writes these incredibly deep books so lightly.
I adore Bokonism, such a brilliant concept written so well and so humorously but at its heart just a way to calm and help a populous that has no reason for carrying on. Optimistic nihilism at its best. The shadow of Felix throughout the first half of the book is imprinted extremely well, you can feel the weight of him and the horrible things he has done in the name of boredom through the town that raised him and the kids he didn’t raise at all.
Vonneguts writing style is as casually brilliant in this as it was in Sirens of Titan, I don’t want to echo myself but it’s so insanely impressive the way he writes these incredibly deep books so lightly.
adventurous
funny
reflective
medium-paced
adventurous
funny
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Cat’s Cradle is an entertaining tale about the end of the world, witty in its character arcs and striking in its ability to comment on what may ultimately be a fruitless search for the meaning of life. Religion and science go hand in hand with Jonah’s endeavors to write his book, exposing how our beliefs can be our downfall and our destiny. Although I found it to be intriguing, I didn’t really care about Jonah or the Hoenikkers or any of the other characters, despite the fact that they are responsible for driving the plot forward. Of course, this may be intentional on Vonnegut’s end to show how deeply flawed we are, but I still didn’t have much interest in them. I was also deeply critical of how black people and women are portrayed as very one dimensional and stereotypical, particularly Bokonon and Mona Aamos. I was hoping that ice nine would have an impact on the plot maybe halfway into the book, not right at the very end with only 20 pages left to spare. There were characters and places that were unnecessarily included which just didn’t matter in my opinion, if only to make some small comment on a character. There’s a lot of foreshadowing of the ice nine tragedy which kept me going, but I felt very unsatisfied by the end.
dark
funny