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Pale Fire
The feed for reading "Cat's Cradle" by Kurt Vonnegut together from December 1-14, 2024. To take part, get in touch with harrisj.bsky.social!
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Jedi M@jedibyknight.com
Come join us 📖 in reading some dystopian classics (still relevant today...) during August! ▪️Omelas by LeGuin: Aug 1-4 ▪️Parable of the Sower by Butler: Aug 6-30 Reply here if you want to be added to the feed, then you'll be able to post to there by using the acorn emoji 🌰 in your post 💙📚🪐
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Fellow readers, do we have another read-along scheduled? I know some are reading Clarissa ✉️ and DQ 🫏 like I am. I'm wondering if I missed a post. Some of us just finished Call Me Ishamelle 🦑. 🪛💐 🍠 🐋📖🚣♂️🚣♀️ 🚀🌈 🔩🛖 I apologize for the nightmare of emoji. Trying to hit all the lists. I missed a couple.
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Speaking of 📖 club, I did read Cat's Cradle super late, which I think was the December read? Figured I may as well because I am underread when it comes to Vonnegut in general. There were some funny bits in that one too, of course. 🧊
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Just a reminder for #BSBookclub 📖 that we start reading Pale Fire on Saturday!
The emoji is 🦋, and the feed is /palefire. Let me know if you haven't already been added to the list and would like to be!
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I was reading that there are no movie versions of “Cat’s Cradle” because it’s felt to be unadaptable. For everyone who just finished reading it, how do you feel about this? 🧊
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I’m actually glad I started and read as far as it did. It just felt too depressing to push on, which actually may say something about the power of Vonnegut as a writer. 🧊
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Finished reading “Cat’s Cradle” and enjoyed it. The three befuddled children wrestling with their father’s legacy reminded me of “Succession.” The story unfolded in an unexpected way, as the narrator slowly became the main protagonist. No one steps up when a hero is required. Man destroys all. 🧊
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I don’t think I hated it as much as everyone else. It reminded me of a cheesy 30’s horror film. If one were to read another Vonnegut, what would you recommend? 🧊
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Oh well, it wasn’t as good as I remembered but I do like the notion of a karass 🧊
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So I got through Chapter 111 in Cat’s Cradle, and I thought “I really don’t want to read any more.”, so I didn’t. 🧊
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Finished. There are some things I miss about the Cold War (really) but its apocalyptic literature is not one of them. I’m not much of a fan of modern apocalyptic literature either but at least it tends toward post-apocolypse civilizations that survive. 🧊
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Well that's done. I'm so, so glad I didn't read it on my own. 🧊
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Haven't started reading yet, but a chapter called "Mona Thanks Me," coming from this toolbox, does not bode well. 🧊
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I finally got caught up! Just in time for a depressing coda tomorrow. What an extremely cynical book. I remembered it as being so, but it’s really darker than I remembered. Are the most fervent idealists also the most acerbic cynics because their visions are so lofty they can only be disappointed? 🧊
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It's interesting to note the difference between the way sexual and non-sexual violence are treated in Cat's Cradle. There's a lot of detail about the latter, all the explosions and pillars falling etc, but I had to re-read the rape scene to make sure it even happened, it was so hand-wavy. 🧊
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and all the water frozen solid and tornados in the sky 🧊
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Welp. Definitely disappointed in my second read of cats cradle - disappointed in my younger self? Disappointed in Kurt? I dunno. Coulda done without the rape scene and the racist language. But, maybe, that was the point? 🧊
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On Ch. 102, so I think I'm only a day behind now. Anyone else find the albatross symbolism a leetle heavy-handed? 🧊
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Minton’s speech in Cat’s Cradle is definitely the authorial voice. I’ve cut Vonnegut a lot of slack in this novel because I know his heart is in the right place (and I can’t imagine living through the bombing of Dresden). I get why people loved this novel - for the ideas and the humor. But I don’t.🧊
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🧊 ps: This is the first book I’ve read on my phone which I’ve wanted to make habit of for a while. I think the short chapters and overall length made it particularly well suited, but I feel like readable fiction generally could work.
Any suggestions for books to try on the small screen?
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