By now you already know...

...that I am a big geek.  I've been watching Star Trek (TOS, TNG, DSN, and Voyager) since I was seven.  I first played VG's on the Coleco at age 3, I am a comic book nerd, I've been tinkering with computers for the last ten years, my favorite shows and movies tend to those in the Sci-Fi genre, and the books that I read typically have to do with all of the above.

It is by no surprise then that I read novels such as Cat's Cradle, a 60's Sci-Fi fiction with satirical references to religion, social hierarchy, and politics.  This book is legend among Sci-Fi readers, however I have just read it for the first time.  Vonnegut brings you in the world of a religious figure known as Bokonon, who has developed an intriguing religion on a Caribbean isle.  Our protagonist, a journalist and a man of destiny, is drawn to this island through various run-ins and events while investigating the legacy of a dead scientist.  Along the writer's way he befriends a midget, discovers a mythological super weapon, and meets the woman of his dreams.

Cat's Cradle is an informative and intriguing window to the world that we live in.  And even though the fiction is over 40 years old, it's parallels can be seen in all aspects of our modern lives.  If you haven't read it then perhaps it's because someone in your "karass" hasn't informed you; until now.