--- status: To Read date_finished: title: Cat's Cradle subtitle: A Novel description: “A free-wheeling vehicle . . . an unforgettable ride!”—The New York Times Cat’s Cradle is Kurt Vonnegut’s satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet’s ultimate fate, it features a midget 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. A book that left an indelible mark on an entire generation of readers, Cat’s Cradle is one of the twentieth century’s most important works—and Vonnegut at his very best. “[Vonnegut is] an unimitative and inimitable social satirist.”—Harper’s Magazine “Our finest black-humorist . . . We laugh in self-defense.”—Atlantic Monthly categories: - Fiction authors: - [[Kurt Vonnegut]] published_on: 2009-11-04 publisher: Dial Press pages: 306 isbn: 307567273 cover: http://books.google.com/books/content?id=w25sx0G6nRsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api local_cover: 50 Resources/51 Attachments/51.03 Public/Cat's Cradle (book).jpg link: https://amzn.to/4gExWgb tags: - type/book - books - summaries - zone/areas - zone/areas/literature_notes created: 2024-12-16T08:56 updated: 2026-04-01T14:43 public_note: true --- # Cat's Cradle (book) - Author(s): [[Kurt Vonnegut]] - Link: https://amzn.to/4gExWgb ![[50 Resources/51 Attachments/51.03 Public/Cat's Cradle (book).jpg|200]] ## Description ## Key quotes <!-- QueryToSerialize: LIST FROM #type/quote AND [[Cat's Cradle (book)]] WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC --> <!-- SerializedQuery: LIST FROM #type/quote AND [[Cat's Cradle (book)]] WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC --> - [[New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become]] - [[There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look]] <!-- SerializedQuery END --> ## Key ideas ... # Chapter 1: ... ... ## References -