Mike's review
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Heading back to Vonnegut's early work, and I begin to feel a little irked by the lack of wackiness! Am I just too hard to please?
I don't have a huge amount to say about this one. I suppose I should say something about the cold war setting, mutually assured destruction yada yada, but I can't be bothered. I rolled along pretty nicely, was quite amusing, had that whole 'science and religion' vibe (very topical), which I thought was very interesting. I think that latter point was what I found most intriguing - it was a bit late to state that science had 'sin' in 1945, it seemed to be sinning for a long time before that - funny that it would take such an extreme of militarily-applied science to give that one wide currency. Indeed, with the Dresden episode, Vonnegut was also referred to sinning science, albeit of a less sophisticated variety.
I don't have a huge amount to say about this one. I suppose I should say something about the cold war setting, mutually assured destruction yada yada, but I can't be bothered. I rolled along pretty nicely, was quite amusing, had that whole 'science and religion' vibe (very topical), which I thought was very interesting. I think that latter point was what I found most intriguing - it was a bit late to state that science had 'sin' in 1945, it seemed to be sinning for a long time before that - funny that it would take such an extreme of militarily-applied science to give that one wide currency. Indeed, with the Dresden episode, Vonnegut was also referred to sinning science, albeit of a less sophisticated variety.
