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Cat's Cradle is absolutely bonkers as far as plot goes, but it manages to provide hilarious satire on a number of topics close to my heart: father-child relationships where the father is a famous scientist, science and innovation directed for warfare, and (dis)organized religion. That said, I'm quite doubtful of the book's broad appeal. It's so so weird, but I guess it is Kurt Vonnegut after all.
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Vonnegut has a really interesting writing style. I enjoyed this, but it was pretty dark.
'"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before," Bokonon tells us. "He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way."'
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'"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before," Bokonon tells us. "He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way."'
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