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A review by dirk_bannion_author
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
3.0
OK... I'm probably a terrible reader and writer for saying this, but... I didn't get it.
Now, let me temper that statement by saying that I had no problem at all finishing the book. I wanted to know what was going to happen, if for no other reason, than to figure out how all the weird disparate details fit together in the end.
But once it was finally over, I just really didn't get what the actual story or theme or moral, or whatever it was supposed to do for me, was.
There were moments in which I laughed out loud. And there were moments where I noted brilliance without a doubt. But I guess I'm just no on Vonnegut's plane when it comes to "satirical wit and black comic perception" as advertised on the back of the book. The book just didn't do much for me.
That being said, I've never claimed to be a connoisseur. Just a lover of reading and writing good stories that take me away for a fun ride outside myself. "Cat's Cradle" did that to a certain extent. I'm hoping the next one does even better.
What about you? Have you read Cat's Cradle? What did you think of it?
Now, let me temper that statement by saying that I had no problem at all finishing the book. I wanted to know what was going to happen, if for no other reason, than to figure out how all the weird disparate details fit together in the end.
But once it was finally over, I just really didn't get what the actual story or theme or moral, or whatever it was supposed to do for me, was.
There were moments in which I laughed out loud. And there were moments where I noted brilliance without a doubt. But I guess I'm just no on Vonnegut's plane when it comes to "satirical wit and black comic perception" as advertised on the back of the book. The book just didn't do much for me.
That being said, I've never claimed to be a connoisseur. Just a lover of reading and writing good stories that take me away for a fun ride outside myself. "Cat's Cradle" did that to a certain extent. I'm hoping the next one does even better.
What about you? Have you read Cat's Cradle? What did you think of it?