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Title: Absurd and frightening - one of the best novels ever written
Review: Kurt Vonnegut wrote a number of extremely good novels. Two of them are truly great. Cat's Cradle is one. (Slaughterhouse Five is the other)Cat's Cradle treads on some of the same ground as Orwell's 1984, but where Orwell delivers his message with a heavy hand, Vonnegut delivers his message with sardonic wit and sharp insight. In Cat's Cradle, Vonnegut directs his considerable wit and insight at the institutions of religion, politics, and science.Cat's Cradle is arguably Vonnegut's funniest and most imaginative novel, and also one of his most profound. It manages to be both absurd and frightening. If you haven't read anything by Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle is a great place to start. This is an important book; one of the best novels ever written.
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