whenever somebody asks me to name my favorite book, this is the book that most often comes to mind first.

Kurt Vonnegut’s fantastic invention sees the entire history of mankind as simply a response to a delivery problem. I don’t want to give the plot away as this is the central attraction of the novel but I will say that the book is full of the most fantastic inventions, of fascinating characters and extraordinary co-incidences. The novel travels the universe from Earth to Trafalmador and back to Titan. By the time you get to the end you can almost guess what is going on. The ‘theory’ proposed is both breath-taking and staggering in the way it moves us humans from being at the heart of the universe to being trivial and insigificant life forms of no importance whatsoever.

All this is told with Kurt’s tongue firmley stuck in his cheek, and all the better for that. Read this and you will never look at yourself in the same way again!

this is my favorite vonnegut book. at first i thought “cat’s cradle” was my favorite vonnegut book, but after re-reading that one i realized that this was it.