My all time favorite author!

I feel like his writing style is similar to my thought process!  (which could be good or bad depending on how you look at it...) Slaughterhouse-five is definite one of the best books I've read over the years. 

Funny, I was reading Cats Cradle yesterday. I read most if not all his works in jr high and go back to them now and again.

I first read one of his books in high-school and got hooked immediately! Theres just no way to get bored with his style, I absolutely adore it!

The style sits well with some folks and not with others.

Ice Nine was my favorite. Anyone ever read Richard Brautigan?

I've read most of his books.  I think I'm going to try to finish off the rest this year.  My fave was Cat's Cradle.

Some of them get a little dark for me, but I do appreciate his humanist view of the world, also you have to love the weirdness .

when Kurt died, I gravitated to Chuck Palahniuk.

I've always been dim with Vonnegut. I like the stories but I rarely got the themes.  I was younger then and maybe not mature enough to understand it all.

See the cat?  See the cradle?

maybe that phrase represents the notion of adults taking some piece of nonsense and trying to force children to see more in it than there is. Maybe?

His books can be like They Might Be Giants songs for me, often having abstruse deeper meanings if you wish to dig, or you can just skim the top and enjoy the frivolity and madness dancing on the surface.

Or you can do both!

I think you are pretty much right about the meaning of the quote.  It's about delusion and apparent truths, I think- seeing what you want to believe, etc.  The cat's cradle is a silly child's game that he finds analogous to "silly games" adults play that have more serious consequences.

I love Kurt Vonnegut, my father got me hooked on him as a child. Slaughterhouse-five and Cat's Cradle have got to be my favorites.

I've only read Slaughterhouse-5, but i really enjoyed it and plan to read more by him.
I have an acrylic painting with a quote from the book hanging on my wall - Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.

I've been looking for some used Vonnegut. Being on an island makes new books expensive so I buy all my books used . It is strange that I never see any of his books. It seems Vonnegut fans hang on to his works. I love to assemble a group of an authors work and then read them in sequence. As you read Vonnegut he seems to get progressively more out there.  The world he creates and the characters challenge of morality and human nature intrigue me again and again. Soon I have to travel to the states and when I'm there I'll scour the used book stores.