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L) Oh come on! This books is wonderful. Perhaps it's the best novel Vonnegut has ever written.
E) Are you kidding me? Have you read the whole of it?
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I felt that the story, despite all of its science fiction trappings and self-...more...]]> 135479 0140285601 9780140285604 24189 1156 4.19 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172066038m/135479.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/135479.Cat_s_Cradle 5 4 false Mon Oct 13 11:15:21 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 18 15:11:24 -0700 2008 5 or so
Slaughterhouse Five may be a haunting, beautifully constructed, masterpiece of literature (a...more...]]> 135479 0140285601 9780140285604 24189 1156 4.19 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172066038m/135479.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/135479.Cat_s_Cradle 5 4 false Wed Aug 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 09 13:52:10 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 09 13:53:05 -0700 2008 1 more...]]> 135479 0140285601 9780140285604 24189 1156 4.19 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172066038m/135479.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/135479.Cat_s_Cradle 4 3 false Mon Apr 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jan 31 06:52:37 -0800 2008 Mon Apr 14 07:35:51 -0700 2008
As much as I enjoy reading Vonnegut, one of the nagging little doubts I always have is that I'm missing something. That there's a hidden message in there that I'm not picking up on. Or, on the other hand, that I am picking up messages that just aren't the...more...]]> 135479 0140285601 9780140285604 24189 1156 4.19 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172066038m/135479.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/135479.Cat_s_Cradle 5 6 false Fri Sep 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 16 09:42:01 -0700 2009 Sun Nov 15 01:27:05 -0800 2009 exactly the kind of book I would try to write. You get this uncanny feeli...more...]]> 135479 0140285601 9780140285604 24189 1156 4.19 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172066038m/135479.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/135479.Cat_s_Cradle 3 2 false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Dec 15 12:30:36 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 15 12:32:30 -0800 2007
How about the quality of the writing? Call me a purist, but the use of fabricated dialects and i...more...]]> 4983 0791071685 9780791071687 1308 87 4.19 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173144106m/4983.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4983.Cat_s_Cradle 5 2 false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Apr 19 19:27:21 -0700 2007 Thu Apr 19 20:17:40 -0700 2007 more...]]> 9608 4001149125 9784001149128 547 52 4.19 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1191947956m/9608.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9608.Cat_s_Cradle 5 2 false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1967 Thu Nov 27 17:39:38 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 27 17:44:20 -0800 2008 9608 4001149125 9784001149128 547 52 4.19 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1191947956m/9608.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9608.Cat_s_Cradle 5 2 false Mon Aug 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 15 20:44:18 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 22 16:23:00 -0700 2008
Dangit: five stars.
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Five stars for nea...more...]]> 135479 0140285601 9780140285604 24189 1156 4.19 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172066038m/135479.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/135479.Cat_s_Cradle 5 1 false Wed Sep 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 17 12:05:42 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 17 13:07:20 -0700 2008
I have only read a couple of Vonnegut works before this, and I must say, although it is definitely sarcastic and satirical like his other works I've enjo...more...]]> 135479 0140285601 9780140285604 24189 1156 4.19 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172066038m/135479.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/135479.Cat_s_Cradle 4 1 false Fri May 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed May 14 12:05:25 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 14 15:10:44 -0700 2008 more...]]> 386411 038533348X 9780385333481 5140 366 4.19 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1229113023m/386411.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/386411.Cat_s_Cradle 4 2 false Fri Sep 07 07:37:19 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 11 22:16:56 -0700 2008
Clare Minton's letter to the Times was published during the worst era of Senator McCarthy, and her husband was fired twelve hours after the lette...more...]]> 386411 038533348X 9780385333481 5140 366 4.19 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1229113023m/386411.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/386411.Cat_s_Cradle 5 1 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Wed Sep 05 07:51:15 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 09 15:14:34 -0700 2007 Kurt Vonnegut's body of work), I picked up Cat's Cradle. I remember writing an essay on this novel for my AP English class; unfortunately, I have no idea what happened to the essay itself, as it wo...more...]]> 135479 0140285601 9780140285604 24189 1156 4.19 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172066038m/135479.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/135479.Cat_s_Cradle 5 1 false Sun Nov 23 04:00:22 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 23 04:09:39 -0800 2008
With its short chapters and easy to follow storyline, I would rate this book THE gateway book for beginning readers. If you're a connois...more...]]> 135479 0140285601 9780140285604 24189 1156 4.19 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172066038m/135479.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/135479.Cat_s_Cradle 3 1 false Mon Dec 15 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 12:24:59 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 20 12:52:41 -0800 2008 1791702 0385281269 9780385281263 11 2 4.19 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1211612458m/1791702.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1791702.Cat_s_Cradle 4 1 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1968 Sat May 24 00:01:56 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 12 11:06:56 -0700 2009 2 more...]]> 386411 038533348X 9780385333481 5140 366 4.19 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1229113023m/386411.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/386411.Cat_s_Cradle 2 0 false Thu Mar 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 27 18:29:42 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 27 18:39:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 135479 0140285601 9780140285604 24189 1156 4.19 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172066038m/135479.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/135479.Cat_s_Cradle 5 1 false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1969 Tue Jan 29 08:13:14 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 29 08:19:19 -0800 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=4983