A New Book For Reading?

[Darorinag]

I still haven't finished it. Sorry. But we can always start talking about the beginning if you want.. I'm afraid I didn't do much reading today.

[XxgoeyxX]

No problem if you didn’t read. No one else is reading or maybe they are but aren’t posting to let us know. Anywho, I actually wanted to talk about one part of the story that I thought was funny and I couldn’t stop laughing actually.

The part when Newt was writing the letter to John the narrator. He mentioned how his father was not much of a talker or a social person as we can see through out the whole book. Well my favorite part was when he said on the day when his father was going to get the Nobel Prize his wife had cooked him a big breakfast. Then when she was cleaning the table there was money on the table cause her husband had tipped her. LAMOO..I couldn’t stop laughing. I don’t know why but it reminded me of all the times I cleaned the table and never got tipped like that. Then I thought gezz this guy was an idiot. I mean he was this awesome scientist who made the Atomic Bomb but the guy couldn’t even interact or socialize with people. Then I thought maybe he was an alien or something. I mean its fiction I’m sure the author would do something crazy like that.

But then I thought this whole book gave this really silly opinion on scientists until Dr. Breed cleared it up for us. I mean how many books like this give us an exact meaning of what a scientist is like. Little research has been done to figure out how scientists are portrayed by science fiction authors or fiction authors.

Well usually in science fiction books scientists appear as lurid, melodramatic and evil. I mean the evil scientist -- or the future scientist surviving into a post-industrial society -- carries with him the trappings of sorcery, wizardry, and alchemy.

Well, I get that from reading books like this and watching the news. HAHA…maybe I’m just being silly with this. I mean Felix Hoenikker is in many ways portrays as evil. But as Dr. Breed said “I’m sick of people misunderstanding what a scientist is, what a scientists does.” He was a smart man that Dr. Breed. I liked him.

BUTT I do wish the author made Feliz Hoenikker an alien in the end like I wanted. It would have explained a lotttt!…hehehe.

[Darorinag]

lol.. still not done with the book. Yes, yes, I'm still reading it, actually!

[Tres Bien]

Im going to start as soon as i get a hold of a copy of KURTS book!

[XxgoeyxX]

wohoww...TB is reading too....This is a good start. I think!

[XxgoeyxX]

O by the wasy TB...Darorinag said the was reading it on the computer (e-book). I dont know what that means but is there any way you can do that?

[Tres Bien]

Ill see too it...but its a pain for the eyes reading from'a'computer...desperate times calls for desperate methods I guess!

[Anonymouse]

On page 41, of Cat's Cradle under the chapter of "The Most Valuable Commodity On Earth", Vonnegut writes via the characters in the book that:

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become."

This basically reaffirms the old stance that knowledge is power. I just found it interesting, not because of his stance, but because I disagree that knowledge is power. Knowledge is convertible into power, but it itself is not power. Wisdom is power. The purpose of science, religion, education, etc., is to make man wise. If knowledge does not make him so, it is wasted, like water poured on sands.

[XxgoeyxX]

What interests me the most was the second sentences of the quote. “The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.” With your point stated could it be that the “pure research” Dr.Breed was talking about was in fact giving “false” knowledge to the people. If they were paid to increase knowledge as he stated that could mean they could have in many ways increased this “false” knowledge of such things. Therefore, stating wisdom is the truth makes more senses, rather than being knowledgeable about something that is completely false.

[XxgoeyxX]

This book thingy went poooo pooooooo again...