Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Paperback | Pages: 306 pages Rating: 4.16 | 326333 Users | 10219 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Cat's Cradle |
| ISBN: | 0140285601 (ISBN13: 9780140285604) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Bokonon, Angela Hoenikker, Emily Hoenikker, Frank Hoenikker, Newt Hoenikker, "Papa" Monzano, Mona Aamons Monzano, John -- |
| Setting: | San Lorenzo Ilium(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel (1964) |
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Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon and, worse still, surviving it ...Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding 'fathers' of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. For he's the inventor of 'ice-nine', a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entire planet. The search for its whereabouts leads to Hoenikker's three ecentric children, to a crazed dictator in the Caribbean, to madness. Felix Hoenikker's Death Wish comes true when his last, fatal gift to humankind brings about the end, that for all of us, is nigh...
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| Title | : | Cat's Cradle |
| Author | : | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 306 pages |
| Published | : | 1999 by Penguin (first published 1963) |
| Categories | : | Romance. Adult Fiction. Erotica. Contemporary. Contemporary Romance. Adult. Erotic Romance. Music |
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Ratings: 4.16 From 326333 Users | 10219 ReviewsAssessment Appertaining To Books Cat's Cradle
Apocalyptic sci fi/utopia revolving around ice-nine (side effect of developing nuclear bombs), with lots of religious philosophy (Bokonism), i.e. that people need the reassurance of beliefs regardless of whether they are true or not - which they aren't.Note to self: Before rereading, read Manny's review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...Dictionary of Bokonism: http://bernd.wechner.info/Bokononism/...Including:boko-maru: The mingling of awareness. A Bokononist ritual during which twoWhen he embarks on a project to write a book about the creators of the atomic bomb, Jonah has no idea what he's going to unearth: Dr Felix Hoenikker and Ice-Nine, a substance that will instantly freeze any water it comes into contact with into more Ice-Nine, a substance capable of destroying all life on earth. Can Jonah find the missing Hoenikker children and secure their chips of Ice-Nine to safeguard the world?Here we are, my second experience with Kurt Vonnegut and one of his Big Important
I stopped at page 175 and I have NEVER done that. I never give up on books I start. This book made me re-think that practice. Normally, even if I do not like a book, I can find something about it to keep me going but with Cat's Cradle I just had to quit. I need to feel something - curiousity, irritation, sadness, happiness, love, desire, anger, escapism, like I am learning something new, that I need the lesson this book is offering... whatever. I need to connect to the book, the story, the
There are two voices inside my head. Let's call them Lore and Enzo. At the moment L & E are quarreling on Cat's Cradle. (...)L) Oh come on! This book is wonderful. Perhaps it's the best novel Vonnegut has ever written.E) Are you kidding me? Have you read the whole of it?L) Of course I've read it from its first word to the very last one.E) And haven't you noticed anything strange?L) What are you talking about?E) I mean, you know, it's a discontinuous novel. I can't deny it has a great
I've read this book four times. It's better than the Bible, because unlike the Bible, this book knows it's fiction.
Although I found the ending rather abrupt, I thought this was a fantastic book! The style of short chapters was unusual but fit well with the narration.The story is told from the point of view of a writer John (or Jonah) who has converted from Christianity to Bokononism and is attempting to write a book about the day the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. He meets many weird characters (or members of his karass) along the way and describes among other things, his journey to Bokononism. I
Cat's Cradle: Vonnegut's String GameCat's Cradle, First Edition,Holt, Rinehart and WinstonPublished in 1963, "Cat's Cradle" is Kurt Vonnegut's fourth novel. I consider it one of the great satirical works of the 20th Century. Often referred to as a modern Mark Twain, Vonnegut's view of American society more fully embraces a society and its group values, while Twain's targets for his biting wit were more specifically aimed, although with the same verve and joy in the revelation of the foibles of
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