CAT'S CRADLE by KURT VONNEGUT

Written just after the dramatics of the Cuban Missile Crisis this cynical yet homely satire investigates the absurdity of the ideologies of the scientific age which could yield to a mass wipeout now that Vonneguts world had acquired the technology to do just that.

Vonneguts style is to write as he would speak to his hometown audience which gives it a humourous immediacy.

This review gives a good overview of some of the themes of the Novel which are still appealing to the youth which was born many decades after the Book came out


But last word goes to Kurt Vonnegut himself giving the background of the Novel and what the times meant to his generation in which Technology and Concepts , as well as Human Leader had the ability to be Tyrants of the age.As he says at the 3min20secs mark "I was a great believer in Truth , scientific Truth , until Turth was dropped on Hiroshima."