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Kurt Vonnegut: Cat's Cradle (Paperback, 2006, Dial Press)

One of Vonnegut's major works, a young writer decides to interview the children of a …

Great but not good or maybe the other way around

This is frequently how I feel about vonnegut: he has an incredibly unique voice and is amazing at crafting sentences that hit just right.

But I also don't get a lot out of it. Women are almost always non-characters and I find it distracting. I see the cleverness in the setups but feel bored waiting for the punchlines, like I caught the magician setting up for the trick when I wasn't supposed to.

I don't regret reading this book but I also can't really imagine revisiting it.