Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle: Modern Critical Interpretations
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Published in 1963, Cat’s Cradle showcased Kurt Vonnegut’s accomplishments both as a satirist and an artist. Some of the most respected criticism on the novel is collected in this volume. Subjects covered include the private person as public figure, Bokonomism as a structure of ironies, and the playful genesis and dark revelation in the novel.
The title, Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most vital 20th-century criticism on Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a fleeting biography on Kurt Vonnegut, a chronology of the leader’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bruise, right Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.Amazon.com Review
Cat’s Cradle, one of Vonnegut’s most entertaining novels, is filled with scientists and G-men and even ordinary folks caught up in the game. These assorted characters chase each additional around in search of the world’s most vital and treacherous substance, a new form of ice that freezes at room temperature. At one time, this novel could probably be establish on the bookshelf of every college kid in America; it’s still a fabulous read and a fantastic place to start if you’re young enough to have missed the first Vonnegut craze.
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I’ve never read a Vonnegut book before, and now I know why. He died and so I saw him on the news and figured I should give him a shot. Cat’s Cradle kind of sounded dumb and it turns out it doesn’t mean anything, but I don’t judge books by their covers because that can’t tell you anything, so I chose to read it anyway.
After the first sentence I knew the book was stupid. “Call me Jonah?” I mean, why call him anything? What kind of crappy book starts like that? Is that some kind of in joke or something where all the Vonnegutians are laughing SO HARD because he is SO FUNNY again. It only took three words for me to know the book was dumb, but I kept reading it because I didn’t want to give up and figured it may grow on me, but it didn’t, unless you mean grow on you like athlete’s foot does, by which I mean in a terrible way, not like it grows on you a whole lot, because it doesn’t except in a terrible way.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This is a decent sci-fi escape, but nowhere near as excellent an escape as Star Wars: Attack of the Clones, or Star Wars: A New Hope. This isn’t very challenging, and you may feel compelled to read it because of the nearly too simple tale, and simple going language. This is basically a book about a mad scientist who tries to take over the world by freezing it over with a substance called Ice-Nine, and at the end he succeeds because of his children’s greed to control it. Again, not very complex or deep, a basic fable, but still entertaining. But as entertaining as Star Wars? NO. I recommend renting the star war movies or getting the star war books, especially the ones with Jabba the Hut. Cat’s Cradle has no point or meaning to it, unlike Lucas’s prophetic, incredible vision. Vonnegut is amusing, but not very intelligent.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Based on the tons of positive reviews for this movie, I can see that everyone loved it. I just finished reading it in school and am now very frustrated.
Cat’s Cradle is pointless and so ridiculous that by the first page, I lost interest.
First off, there are WAY too many chapters and for me and my studies, I had to write a chapter synopsis for each one. Very annoying.
Kurt Vonnegut is trying to be amusing during the whole book and because of that, his book is about nothing. He just randomly throws whatever is on his mind on paper and gets it published and legendary. He tries to be amusing. I say again TRIES. He is not though, his attempts are horrible and all of his ironic passages were idiotic.
On top of it for a student, he made my life a living hell. We would spent the whole class analysing the first line.
“Call Me Jonah.” Why?!
Or: “So we had a night to kill in Ilium.”
None of this is ironic or amusing, it’s absolutely ridiculous. This isn’t a book, it has no plot, nothing. Its characters aren’t developed and well…it’s so ridiculous it’s stupid.
The title of the book has to do with a very minor incident and it should have been called ice-nine.
The ending is absurd, the whole religion invented is absurd…EVERYTHING IS ABSURD. It’s not amusing and is painful to suffer Vonnegut’s billions of attempts at trying to be amusing. And then on top it, to have to analyze it and do a final on it…well right now..I’m not liking Vonnegut and I might as well burn the copy of Slaughterhouse Five that I have sitting on my already huge book collection.
So, unless you are forced to read this trash in school, I would stay far away from it as it’s dull, lame, ridiculous, not amusing and very painful to suffer.
Vonnegut doesn’t renovate any of his characters so by the end, I really didn’t give a rat’s a#$ what happened to any of them. And the ending…just dreadful. This book manages to bash religion, not renovate its characters, not have any plot, be too long, and not amusing. Now that’s not a very excellent book.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This book is absolutely horrible. Seriously, it’s hideous. I can’t stand to have this book in my house. I buried it along with my dead cat (meow) (that’s an inside joke for you three CC fans out there).
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Cat’s Cradle is the worst book I have ever read. It’s a pointless, plotless book, and should not be considered as any sort of literary achievement. This book is a waste of time, and I do not recommend it to anyone.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5