Third book for the readathon.

I don't know what went wrong with reading Vonnegut before, but I liked Cat's Cradle a lot more than The Sirens of Titan. The short chapters helped -- I'm guessing some people find it too fragmented, but I found that that helped draw me on. The tone of it helps, too: dry and ironic.

There's something about the background characters, like Bokonon and Hoenikker, that's pretty compelling, too. The idea of ice-nine, and the fake religion that makes so much sense... I remember liking the ideas behind The Sirens of Titan, so maybe it isn't so surprising that I enjoyed Cat's Cradle.

As with several other books I've read recently (notably, Poul Anderson's books), I was encouraged to read this by the references to it in Jo Walton's Among Others. Busy, busy, busy...