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Cat's Cradle

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Cat's Cradle

by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

About this title: Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon and, worse still, surviving it ...Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding 'fathers' of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. For he is the inventor of 'ice-nine', a lethal chemical capable ...

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Cat's Cradle (Penguin Science Fiction)

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Binding: Paperback Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Date Published: 1965 ISBN-13: 9780140023084 ISBN: 0140023089

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Edition: New edition Binding: Paperback Publisher: Dell Publishing Date Published: 01/07/1965 ISBN-13: 9780140023084 ISBN: 0140023089

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Binding: Softcover ISBN-13: 9780440111498 ISBN: 0440111498

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Binding: Paperback Publisher: London: Penguin, 1973 ISBN-13: 9780140023084 ISBN: 0140023089

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Binding: Paperback Publisher: Dell Publishing Date Published: 1998 ISBN-13: 9780385333481 ISBN: 038533348X

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Edition: Sixth Printing Thus Binding: Mass Market Paperback Publisher: Dell, New York Date Published: 1969

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Binding: PAPERBACK Publisher: Dell Pub Co, New York, U.S.A. Date Published: 1972

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Edition: Second Dell Printing, December 1965. Binding: Trade paperback Publisher: Delta Date Published: 1963 ISBN-13: 9780385281263 ISBN: 0385281269

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Binding: Mass Market Paperback Publisher: Dell Date Published: 1979 ISBN-13: 9780440111498 ISBN: 0440111498

Description: Fair Condition. 49th printing. Creased covers, name inside; moderate wear and discoloring; solid reading copy. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 0 oz. Category: Fiction ISBN: 0440111498 Inventory No: 078377. read more

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Binding: Mass Market Paperback Publisher: Dell Pub Co, New York, U.S. A Date Published: 1997 ISBN-13: 9780440111498 ISBN: 0440111498

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Binding: Trade paperback Publisher: Dial Press Date Published: 1998 ISBN-13: 9780385333481 ISBN: 038533348X

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Description: Dell Book #1149, 36th paperback printing, 1975, classic novel, nice copy, phone number written lightly on cover, overall nice, about VG+. read more

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goodreads rating 4 out of 5 4 out of 5
Oct 3, 2009
By Tyler, Calgary, AB, Canada

"Cat's Cradle is not my favourite Vonnegut book, but was the one that had the greatest impact on my life.

I was in grade eleven and I was below average student. If I had any chance of getting into University, I would need to show some significant improvement in pretty much all of my classes. I would probably have to take both English and Math in summer school just to have a shot at even being in the University level stream.

The problem was that I really didn't care too much one way or the other.

Perhaps the turning point for me was my grade eleven English teacher. Mr.White was one of those teachers who really gave a damn for both the subject and the students he taught. It was in his class that I read Cat's Cradle as my novel study. I had been reading a lot of science fiction, and it looked like something I might actually enjoy. Besides, it was short and written in really small chapters - how hard could it be?

While it wasn't exactly a hard read, I found myself struggling with the book because it was just so different from anything I had read before. For one thing, in the science fiction I had read there was an attempt at plausibility. The idea that this could really happen was to me an unbreakable rule of fiction. Yet here was this guy writing a story - a story for grown-ups!- that didn't give a hoot for plausibility. And yet, and yet. In my fifteen-year old brain the notion that somehow a great truth could be revealed by telling a great lie took root. Perhaps this was my first exposure to how fiction could be used to express an idea in clearer more powerful way than a mere essay ever could. While I certainly did not understand, let alone agree with, the author's mistrust of science, government and religion, I was excited to discover this new (to me) way of writing fiction.

So, still excited by these insights, I submitted my essay to Mr.White and was shocked when a gave me a C for it. I was furious! So I misspelled every fourth word and wrote the whole thing in one paragraph, big deal! And sure I left out some commas and put my punctuation marks outside of my quotation marks. Shouldn't the obvious brilliance of my ideas negate these trivial little errors? Apparently not. I think it was then that it finally dawned on me that if I ever wanted people to hear what I had to say, then there were a few rules I was going to have to learn. So I applied myself to that class and within two months I was transfered to the higher level English. Luckily for me, Mr.White was my teacher there as well.

A year and a half later I even managed to squeak into University."

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goodreads rating 2 out of 5 2 out of 5
Mar 27, 2009
By Courtney, The United States

"I have actually read this book twice. It is extremely forgettable to me, which is funny because The New York Times praises it as being "A free-wheeling vehicle...an unforgettable ride!" I did not intentionally read this book twice. I read it, then I saw it on my shelf and thought I needed to read it since it has been there for awhile. As I started reading it I realized that I had already read it. Oddly, the same thing happened with Slaughterhouse V, also by Vonnegut. His books are so out there that I just can't get interested in them. They are not horrible, but they are so different that I just can't relate to them at all. I guess I like to see myself in characters or I like to be connected to the story somehow. His books seem to be so far fetched that I can't remember them because I never really cared about the characters or the story. But, now that it is fresh in my memory, at least for the time being, I can say that there are some interesting ideas in this book. I like the concept, and I even don't mind the story. There are some interesting characters, but something is just missing for me. I wouldn't advise anyone to stay away from this book, maybe it will appeal to you, but it isn't my favorite."

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Wonderful Journey To The End Of The World, Jan 16, 2009
By artspar, Taichung, Taiwan

"Vonnegut's vision of the end of the world by the substance called Ice-9 is a poetic masterpiece in his own unique and darkly humorous style. Like strolling along and smelling beautiful flowers on the way to Armageddon. Wonderful."

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goodreads rating 3 out of 5 3 out of 5
Dec 15, 2008
By JuliAnna, Amherst, MA

"Cat's Cradle is not nearly as good as Slaghterhouse Five. I even prefer the less well-known Galapagos. Perhaps I am just getting old, but there seemed to be too much cleverness to no effect and little substance. Still, there is enough there an well enough written to make it worth the read."

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