The first sentence of The Books of Bokonon is this:
“All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.”My Bokonist warning is this:
Anyone unable to understand how a useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book, either.
For July, my ongoing reviews of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.’s best novels features Cat’s Cradle, a very funny book about the end of the world. As it’s divided into many very short chapters, it also makes good summer reading—- despite the fact that it may induce actual thinking.
