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Pratchett Did It Better

July 11, 2018 by Ale 1 Comment

I haven’t read a Vonnegut since high school and thought it might be nice to revisit some of the “greats” this summer. I went into Cat’s Cradle cold, and while it was amusing at times and made some fine points, it was exactly what I expected a post-modern classic written by a man of his time to be….In a word: meh. Our narrator starts on a quest to write a book about the day the Atomic Bomb hit Hiroshima, but instead ends up finding religion with a […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cat's cradle, classic, post modern, Vonnegut

Ale's CBR10 Review No:13 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cat's cradle, classic, post modern, Vonnegut ·
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