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Cat’s Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut

As with many of Vonnegut’s books, Cat’s Cradle seems to start out without a story. The narrator, an author, is trying to write a book about what various famous Americans were doing when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. His research leads him to the three children of Felix Hoenikker, the creator of the atomic bomb…

Post by David J. Peterson Posted on June 1, 2007 – 12:00 am | Posted in A, Reviews | Also tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)

Timequake
Kurt Vonnegut

Timequake is about an actual timequake that takes place (in the book) on February 13, 2001. This timequake catapults everyone on Earth back ten years to 1991, and forces them to redo everything they did exactly as they did it ten years prior…

Post by David J. Peterson Posted on April 15, 2007 – 12:00 am | Posted in B, Reviews | Also tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut

Slaughterhouse-Five is about Billy Pilgrim, a POW in WWII who, along with other POW’s, finds shelter in a slaughterhouse (hence the name) while Dresden is being bombed…

Post by David J. Peterson Posted on October 5, 2006 – 12:00 am | Posted in A-, Reviews | Also tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (0)