This is easily my favorite book of all time. I've read it at least six or seven times (the most recent before this one was in 1989), but every page still resonates with me. Cat's Cradle is the best novelization of my cosmology that I've come across to date; in many ways, I am a Bokononist. Cat's Cradle should be required reading for every adult. I have never read another book that had me simultaneously howling in laughter and thinking hard about the meaning of it all. Busy, busy, busy.