Cat's Cradle by Kurt VonnegutMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Like Voltaire's Pangloss, Vonnegut's Bokononism, an artificial religion created to make life bearable to the beleaguered inhabitants of San Lorenzo through acceptance and delight in the inevitability of everything that happens, has a simplicity that belies its wisdom and insight. With its vocabulary of granfaloon, karass, foma, and more and Ice-9, this is among Vonnegut's most inventive and engaging novels. This is not the first time I have enjoyed and I will return again.
This audiobook edition concludes with a comfortable interview in Vonnegut's home with friend, poet, and fellow veteran Walter James Miller. The conversation is not so much about this book, indeed it has more to do with Catch-22 and Miller's plans to annotate it in Joseph Heller's Catch 22 as any specific book. Slaughterhouse-Five gets mentioned as panned for the fatalistic "So it goes" by Elia Kazan and Miller draw's Vonnegut out about The Battle of the Bulge.
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