Cat’s Cradle

Cat’s Cradle (1963)
by Kurt Vonnegut
It’s Kurt Vonnegut again (I read his brilliant Slaughterhouse-Five before), and it’s the same crazy, fast paced entertaining satirical sci-fi story. This time it’s satire on Cold War and religion. It’s always very difficult to give synopsis of his book as the plot and situation tend to get very crazy. It [...]

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Catch-22

Catch-22 (1955)
by Joseph Heller
Great book! A darkly humorous story about the insanity of war and the absurdity of military bureaucracy. Set near the end of WWII at an American military based at Italy, a bombardier named Yossarian tries everyway to scheme his way out of war as he saw no way out of the never-ending [...]

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