Cat's Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut · 1963
Ice-nine, Bokononism, and the bomb. Vonnegut's darkest comedy concerns the end of the world, the comfort of lies, and the absurdity of science without conscience. His invention of Bokononism (a religion built on comforting lies called foma) ranks among fiction's great satirical achievements.
The case against
Vonnegut's shrug does a lot of work here. Every institution is a joke, every believer a dupe, and after a hundred micro-chapters the wholesale irony flattens into a single note. Mona, the island beauty, exists to be desired and to deliver one lesson; San Lorenzo's calypso dialect reads worse every decade. Funny, fast, and thinner than its reputation.
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