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Last year I fell in love with Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-five, but are any of his other works worth the read? I’m currently reading Cat’s Cradle and just curious as to when I’ll become enthralled in it.

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>Reality is futile so mankind creates pretty lies to help itself cope, but deep down it knows its own foolishness and inability to control its fate
So this was just existentialism-lite for the impotent with a whole lot of daddy issues mixed in?
An aside:
>Cold War
>Nuclear winter
>Ice-9
This fucking guy

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It's NOT Cat's Cradle. It was a sci-fi book about a civilization that all practiced a religion they explicitly knew to be false, because they had confirmed that practicing the religion's rituals and following its rules simply led to civilization functioning better. I think it took place on an alien planet, but I could be wrong.

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So were the Hoenikker siblings his cousins? I feel I missed something with the statue subplot.

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"See the cat? See the cradle?"

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>>19037357
>RELIGION IS FOR STUPID SUPERSTITIOUS PRIMITIVES
>DUDE WE LIVE IN A MEANINGLESS UNIVERSE WE’RE JUST MATTER BRO
>DUDE LE MEANINGLESS SUFFERING
>I’M LE EPIC COOL FATALIST/CYNIC/PESSIMIST/NIHILIS I WISH THE WORLD WOULD TO PUT EVERYONE OUT OF MY MISERY
He was Reddit incarnate, awful writer just like his contemporaries Dick and Heinlein

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What am I in for, /lit/? Will this help with my depression?

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>>17649926
Cat's Cradle.

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I just finished Cat's Cradle and I really liked it. There's no coherent plot or a tight ending - but neither does real life sometimes, so it's closer to a roller coaster experience.

I'm going to start The Sirens of Titan next.

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Anyone else enjoy Kurt Vonnegut?

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Thoughts on Cat's Cradle?
Is Bokononism the way to go?

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