Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut

I bumped up Vonnegut books after chatting with some friends about how much they liked his books and told me that I would really enjoy them too.  I wish they had been right, but either this was a poor example of what they had in mind, or I'm not a fan of his books.  By the time you get to the end of Cat's Cradle and the main character commits suicide, you don't even care ( or at least, I didn't) and that's a sign that the characters, story, or both aren't compelling.  It was an interesting idea, but I wasn't excited to get back to the book. It was just something to fill the drive to/from work with.  I'm disappointed about how it turned out and while I do plan on reading another Vonnegut book to make sure this one wasn't a fluke, he got bumped way down on my list again.