Reader recommendation: Cat's Cradle

Monitor readers share their favorite book picks.

I just reread Vonnegut's "Breakfast of Champions." I am now rereading Cat's Cradle. Vonnegut is good because he helps us to understand that life is not to be understood, that truth is as strange as fiction, and that hypocrisy is a force that overwhelms us all.

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