I just finished reading this book and imo it was my favorite work of his, surpassing Slaughterhouse-5 and his other more well known books, why isn’t this one discussed with the greats? I thought the book was devilishly hilarious and an excellent satire, balancing the tone in a way I’ve never seen handled. If you haven’t read it, give it a try, it crams so much content in a fairly short book. Definitely instantly became one of my favorites of all time.
by Doragon_Central
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I found it more enjoyable to read than SH5 because, well, it was a lot less depressing, but I think overall SH5 shows a much more mature and developed writing style. That’s to be expected since it came out 6 years later and Vonnegut spent ages working on it, though.
Cat’s Cradle is very funny overall, and it’s also pretty clever. It’s wild to think it came out in 1963 and made a compassionate reading of religion from an atheist POV and yet we still have people who can only see atheism as some kind of smug and insufferably unkind position. If there’s one thing Vonnegut does well it’s showing a degree of empathy that most people can only dream of, even in his darkest novels.