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seabright22 's review for:
Cat's Cradle
by Kurt Vonnegut
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.