In Remembrance of Kurt Vonnegut: Cat’s Cradle

September 24, 2007 at 8:36 am | In Authors, Books, Classics, In memoriam, Reviews |
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Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut (1963)

It’s hard to believe that I had never read a book by Kurt Vonnegut until after he died, even though I am sure that I have read plenty of books that were influenced by his writing. In honor of Vonnegut, and in order to introduce myself to his work, I read Cat’s Cradle upon learning of his death. The plot of Cat’s Cradle can’t really be summarized, but the story depicts the destruction of the world by means of a misguided invention and human folly. It was a terrific ride into the absurd, in which Vonnegut uses absurdities to expose the absurdities of the human species.

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