[awirth]

Cat's Cradle is one of my favorite books, but to be honest, I've never found it that funny - at least not in the sense that it makes me laugh much. What do you find so funny about it?

[labster]

Everything about it is funny. Humans are absurd, and Cat’s Cradle revels in the absurdity. It’s funny in the same way atom bombs are funny, that our species would hate itself so much as to make a weapon that could destroy us all, and like, we ignore it almost all of the time? Bokonon and the dictator becoming their roles is absurd, but aren’t people this absurd?

Also, there are a lot of chapters. Every single chapter break is there to let a punchline sink in. It’s a literary pause for laughter.

[awirth]

That's interesting, I've always reveled in the absurdity, but perhaps I'll re-read it with an eye to take each chapter in as a discrete unit. Thanks!

[cm42]

Have you read Tim Dorsey at all?

His stuff is full of this type of humor, with notes of whatever decades of covering Florida Man stories for a Miami newspaper does to a man.