i like all the same authors as the red flag guy in movies who falls for a manic pixie dream girl

„Nu fi fraier! Închide cartea asta imediat! E plină de minciuni!" Să vedeți cum a fost. Mi-am făcut mai demult un caiet cu citate din înțelepții mei preferați. Zilele trecute l-am răsfoit și am căzut peste trei extrase din Kurt Vonnegut. Toate erau din Leagănul pisicii. Asta mi-a amintit cît de tare mi-a plăcut cartea. Apoi mi-am zis: „Ia să văd io ce-mi mai amintesc din romanul ăsta minunat!”. Mi-am controlat minuțios memoria. N-am o ținere de minte ieșită din comun, dar memorez cu ușurință cee...

Cat’s Cradle (1963) is perhaps less famous than Slaughterhouse-Five (1969). It is also less complex, less pomo in style, less “busy, busy, busy”, as Bokonon would say. In short, less of a cat’s cradle. But there is a certain quality to this book that makes it one of Vonnegut’s most profound and enjoyable novels. For the most part, the plot is fairly linear and arranged in the classical form of a Swiftian-Voltairian fable. It is told by a first-person narrator/writer/protagonist (“Call me Jonah”,...

Progress: scientific revolution, revolution number nine, ice-nine… Science is neutral and it may serve evil as readily as good…After the thing went off, after it was a sure thing that America could wipe out a city with just one bomb, a scientist turned to Father and said, ‘Science has now known sin.’ And do you know what Father said? He said, ‘What is sin?’Some invent powerful explosives and some invent new religions and it is hard to say which invention is more dangerous.Well, when it became ev...

‘Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy,’ Vonnegut writes in Cat’s Cradle, pointing to something fiction is really well suited towards. I mean what is fiction if not an untruth that can help understand truths, especially when the truth is so difficult and often rather frightening. Especially when the truth is that death is coming. The world is a scary place with Death around every corner. Turn on the news, there’s Death waving to you from behind a podium...

Vonnegut's best? Many will say that it is and who am I to disagree. It does include all the best elements of Vonnegut in his genius: humor, dark and subtle, and sometimes not subtle at all, irreverence, absurdity blended with realism to create a surrealistic setting where the reader is cautiously intrigued by whatever is going on. And the messages and themes, of love, relationships, responsibility, both internally and globally. Also, like several of his more endearing works, this one remains tho...

I like cats. Ambivalent about cradles tho.

there are probably as many reviews of Cat's Cradle as there are stars in the sky, so no doubt there's little i can add that's of any value. who cares? i love hearing myself talk, so let's go for it! ..... well, this is harder than i thought. it's as easy as describing why i love my favorite pillow or threadbare t-shirt, or why i like rainy days as much as sunny days. okay, here goes. the inventiveness of Cat's Cradle and its bleak, absurd humor was incredibly eye-opening to me in high school and...

Most people have read Cat's Cradle, so I won't bother to try and hide spoilers. Did you say you hadn't read it? Well, what are you waiting for? This isn't Ulysses, you know, it's short and funny! So, now that it's just us people who know the book, I want to say why I disagree with the criticism you often see, that it's too fragmentary. On the contrary, I think it's very focused, and makes its point with near-perfect economy and wit. There are two obvious themes. One is how the irresponsible use ...

There are two voices inside my head. Let's call them Lore and Enzo. At the moment L & E are quarreling on Cat's Cradle. (...)L) Oh come on! This book is wonderful. Perhaps it's the best novel Vonnegut has ever written.E) Are you kidding me? Have you read the whole of it?L) Of course I've read it from its first word to the very last one.E) And haven't you noticed anything strange?L) What are you talking about?E) I mean, you know, it's a discontinuous novel. I can't deny it has a great beginni...