One of Vonnegut's major works, this is an apocalyptic tale of the planet's ultimate fate, featuring a cast of unlikely heroes.
作者简介
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Kurt Vonnegut was a master of contemporary American literature. His black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America's attention in The Sirens of Titan in 1959 and established him as "a true artist" with Cat's Cradle in 1963. He was, as Graham Greene declared, "one of the best living American writers.” Mr. Vonnegut passed away in April 2007.
目录
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1 THE DAY THE WORLD ENDED
2 NICE, NICE, VERY NICE
3 FOLLY
4 A TENTATIVE TANGLING OF TENDRILS
5 LETTER FROM A PRE-MED
6 BUG FIGHTS
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1 THE DAY THE WORLD ENDED
2 NICE, NICE, VERY NICE
3 FOLLY
4 A TENTATIVE TANGLING OF TENDRILS
5 LETTER FROM A PRE-MED
6 BUG FIGHTS
7 THE ILLUSTRIOUS HOENIKKERS
8 NEWT'S THING WITH ZINKA
9 VICE-PRESIDENT IN CHARGE OF VOLCANOES
10 SECRET AGENT X-9
11 PROTEIN
12 END OF THE WORLD DELIGHT
13 THE JUMPING-OFF PLACE
14 WHEN AUTOMOBILES HAD CUT-GLASS VASES
15 MERRY CHRISTMAS
16 BACK TO KINDERGARTEN
17 THE GIRL POOL
18 THE MOST VALUABLE COMMODITY ON EARTH
19 NO MORE MUD
20 ICE-NINE I
21 THE MARINES MARCH ON
22 MEMBER OF THE YELLOW PRESS
23 THE LAST BATCH OF BROWNIES
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A novel written for high-school reading level seldom impresses me despite the manifold essential themes of humanity and civilization explored by Vonnegut. Unfortunately, there was nothing surprising o...A novel written for high-school reading level seldom impresses me despite the manifold essential themes of humanity and civilization explored by Vonnegut. Unfortunately, there was nothing surprising or shocking about the Bonokonist truth revealed in the book. Vonnegut might as well have written only the Book of Bonokonism. (展开)
书中没有什么是真实的，因为真实的都在现实里。 读完这本书，所耗时间并不长。 关于此书的寓意，该研究的学者们都已经研究出来了。我无非也想凑热闹，看看自己所认识的可否深切。 Nothing in this book is true 这是我最喜的一句话。用我们恶俗的话讲，我觉得这话听起来很"...
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Somehow relates to one theme of this novel: Cold War attitudes toward the “Third World” Poor and perpetually dominated by outsiders looking to profit from its labor and resources, San Lorenzo becomes a symbol for the superpowers’ manipulation and exploitation of the so-called “ Third World” during the Cold War. her rejection of monogamy is not merely an echo of the growing sexual liberatio...
2021-02-01 17:44:51
Old Chinese proverb.. smart Chinese
Nothin’ but fun Crosby
Somehow relates to one theme of this novel: Cold War attitudes toward the “Third World”
Poor and perpetually dominated by outsiders looking to profit from its labor and resources, San Lorenzo becomes a symbol for the superpowers’ manipulation and exploitation of the so-called “ Third World” during the Cold War.
Mona Aamons Monzano - Jonah‘s wife who committed suicide leading by Bokononism.
her rejection of monogamy is not merely an echo of the growing sexual liberation movement of the 1960s, but also a clear contradiction lto the Cold War’s demands of single-minded political loyalty.
Drawing back to Cat’s Cradle
Bokononism makes no claims to any kind if either literal or mystical truth; in fact, Bokonon repeatedly stresses the fact that all of his words are lies, albeit harmless ones, and openly suggests that no one should follow his instructions.
The fact that everyone in San Lorenzo still does, including in their final act of mass suicide, raises questions about the role of belief in an age in which ideologies (another variety of truth) are defended with threats of nuclear destruction.
When I was young, I was so gay and mean, And I drank and chased the girls Just like young St. Augustine. Saint Augustine, He got to be a saint. So, if I get to be one, also, Please, Mama, don’t you faint.
2018-02-01 12:31:46
When I was young,
I was so gay and mean,
And I drank and chased the girls
Just like young St. Augustine.
Saint Augustine,
He got to be a saint.
So, if I get to be one, also,
Please, Mama, don’t you faint.引自 48 JUST LIKE SAINT AUGUSTINE
”Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before,” Bokonon tells us. “He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.”(1回应)
2017-12-28 04:23:17
”Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before,” Bokonon tells us. “He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.”引自第281页
”What can a thoughtful man hope for mankind on earth, given the experience of the past million years?” It doesn’t take long to read the fourteenth book. It consists of one word and a period. This is it: “Nothing.”
2017-12-28 03:35:31
”What can a thoughtful man hope for mankind on earth, given the experience of the past million years?”
It doesn’t take long to read the fourteenth book. It consists of one word and a period.
This is it:
“Nothing.”引自第245页
”What can a thoughtful man hope for mankind on earth, given the experience of the past million years?” It doesn’t take long to read the fourteenth book. It consists of one word and a period. This is it: “Nothing.”
2017-12-28 03:35:31
”What can a thoughtful man hope for mankind on earth, given the experience of the past million years?”
It doesn’t take long to read the fourteenth book. It consists of one word and a period.
This is it:
“Nothing.”引自第245页
”Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before,” Bokonon tells us. “He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.”(1回应)
2017-12-28 04:23:17
”Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before,” Bokonon tells us. “He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.”引自第281页
Somehow relates to one theme of this novel: Cold War attitudes toward the “Third World” Poor and perpetually dominated by outsiders looking to profit from its labor and resources, San Lorenzo becomes a symbol for the superpowers’ manipulation and exploitation of the so-called “ Third World” during the Cold War. her rejection of monogamy is not merely an echo of the growing sexual liberatio...
2021-02-01 17:44:51
Old Chinese proverb.. smart Chinese
Nothin’ but fun Crosby
Somehow relates to one theme of this novel: Cold War attitudes toward the “Third World”
Poor and perpetually dominated by outsiders looking to profit from its labor and resources, San Lorenzo becomes a symbol for the superpowers’ manipulation and exploitation of the so-called “ Third World” during the Cold War.
Mona Aamons Monzano - Jonah‘s wife who committed suicide leading by Bokononism.
her rejection of monogamy is not merely an echo of the growing sexual liberation movement of the 1960s, but also a clear contradiction lto the Cold War’s demands of single-minded political loyalty.
Drawing back to Cat’s Cradle
Bokononism makes no claims to any kind if either literal or mystical truth; in fact, Bokonon repeatedly stresses the fact that all of his words are lies, albeit harmless ones, and openly suggests that no one should follow his instructions.
The fact that everyone in San Lorenzo still does, including in their final act of mass suicide, raises questions about the role of belief in an age in which ideologies (another variety of truth) are defended with threats of nuclear destruction.
Somehow relates to one theme of this novel: Cold War attitudes toward the “Third World” Poor and perpetually dominated by outsiders looking to profit from its labor and resources, San Lorenzo becomes a symbol for the superpowers’ manipulation and exploitation of the so-called “ Third World” during the Cold War. her rejection of monogamy is not merely an echo of the growing sexual liberatio...
2021-02-01 17:44:51
Old Chinese proverb.. smart Chinese
Nothin’ but fun Crosby
Somehow relates to one theme of this novel: Cold War attitudes toward the “Third World”
Poor and perpetually dominated by outsiders looking to profit from its labor and resources, San Lorenzo becomes a symbol for the superpowers’ manipulation and exploitation of the so-called “ Third World” during the Cold War.
Mona Aamons Monzano - Jonah‘s wife who committed suicide leading by Bokononism.
her rejection of monogamy is not merely an echo of the growing sexual liberation movement of the 1960s, but also a clear contradiction lto the Cold War’s demands of single-minded political loyalty.
Drawing back to Cat’s Cradle
Bokononism makes no claims to any kind if either literal or mystical truth; in fact, Bokonon repeatedly stresses the fact that all of his words are lies, albeit harmless ones, and openly suggests that no one should follow his instructions.
The fact that everyone in San Lorenzo still does, including in their final act of mass suicide, raises questions about the role of belief in an age in which ideologies (another variety of truth) are defended with threats of nuclear destruction.
When I was young, I was so gay and mean, And I drank and chased the girls Just like young St. Augustine. Saint Augustine, He got to be a saint. So, if I get to be one, also, Please, Mama, don’t you faint.
2018-02-01 12:31:46
When I was young,
I was so gay and mean,
And I drank and chased the girls
Just like young St. Augustine.
Saint Augustine,
He got to be a saint.
So, if I get to be one, also,
Please, Mama, don’t you faint.引自 48 JUST LIKE SAINT AUGUSTINE
”Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before,” Bokonon tells us. “He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.”(1回应)
2017-12-28 04:23:17
”Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before,” Bokonon tells us. “He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.”引自第281页
”What can a thoughtful man hope for mankind on earth, given the experience of the past million years?” It doesn’t take long to read the fourteenth book. It consists of one word and a period. This is it: “Nothing.”
2017-12-28 03:35:31
”What can a thoughtful man hope for mankind on earth, given the experience of the past million years?”
It doesn’t take long to read the fourteenth book. It consists of one word and a period.
This is it:
“Nothing.”引自第245页
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Somehow relates to one theme of this novel: Cold War attitudes toward the “Third World” Poor and perpetually dominated by outsiders looking to profit from its labor and resources, San Lorenzo becomes a symbol for the superpowers’ manipulation and exploitation of the so-called “ Third World” during the Cold War. her rejection of monogamy is not merely an echo of the growing sexual liberatio...
When I was young, I was so gay and mean, And I drank and chased the girls Just like young St. Augustine. Saint Augustine, He got to be a saint. So, if I get to be one, also, Please, Mama, don’t you faint.
0 有用 Magnolia 2011-05-19 03:28:22
A novel written for high-school reading level seldom impresses me despite the manifold essential themes of humanity and civilization explored by Vonnegut. Unfortunately, there was nothing surprising o... A novel written for high-school reading level seldom impresses me despite the manifold essential themes of humanity and civilization explored by Vonnegut. Unfortunately, there was nothing surprising or shocking about the Bonokonist truth revealed in the book. Vonnegut might as well have written only the Book of Bonokonism. (展开)
0 有用 叉叉小箭猪 2009-08-28 18:08:38
小冯内古特的讽刺功底太深了。。。
0 有用 Screamy赵爷 2013-02-09 11:29:59
觉得算是Vonnegut比较一般的作品...
0 有用 西柚女孩喜逼力 2017-11-16 16:40:47
觉得比较粗糙 人物性格塑造痛点抓得很准 但情节在讽刺什么啊
0 有用 花卷馒头 2014-11-26 06:39:23
好书！
0 有用 半山脆莓 2022-06-22 07:21:41
我也没读懂。
0 有用 ZZ 2022-06-09 04:35:49
感覺自己不能去打分，因爲不覺得自己讀懂了這本書。
0 有用 闻三多 2022-04-28 07:03:57
4.5 “Live by the foma that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.” (Foma: harmless untruths) - The Books of Bokonism I:5 🤙
0 有用 堇颜 2022-03-24 22:06:25
很讽刺的一部小说。127个短章节拼凑出完整的故事，一部人类的愚蠢史。整本小说荒诞而引人深思。虚无主义。对宗教和科学的批判。哪里有猫？哪里有摇篮？
0 有用 Jieston 2022-03-20 11:51:30
人们想平静生活却有毁灭世界的欲望