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Cat's Cradle

By: Kurt Vonnegut
Narrated by: Tony Roberts
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Cat's Cradle is Vonnegut's satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet's ultimate fate, it features a little person as the protagonist; a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer; and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny.

©1963 Kurt Vonnegut, Jr (P)2007 HarperCollins Publishers Science Fiction Fiction Witty Funny
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I have never read anti-utopia story like this. Truly authentic. It's very powerful how Vonnegut talk about serious social issues using very simple language constructions.
Tony Roberts has made this book even more enjoyable by the way he vocalizes each character.
And bonus interview with the author in the end is very interesting.

Authentic.

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Came to this looking for a light "comedy" book. . This is not that, (which if I knew of the author beforehand would not have come as a surprise) but would be best described as a dark comedy. However it moves easily from one scene to the next, is descriptive enough without getting bogged down and slow. I'm glad I listened, and will explore the authors other works.

Came for some Light* found the Dark* (*comedy)

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Was an interesting book. The narrator read very well and made the experience very enjoyable. Really brought out each character's personalities.

Good story and narrator.

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Or the context. Either way, I didn't really enjoy it all that much (aside from a few moments of black humour).

I'm probably missing the point

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