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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/80064.Coming_Through_Slaughter?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Coming Through Slaughter" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1170976965m/80064.gif" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/80064.Coming_Through_Slaughter?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Coming Through Slaughter</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4030.Michael_Ondaatje">Michael Ondaatje</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22706543?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 3 of 5 stars<br/>I've read all of Ondaatje's more recent books and loved them, so I decided to go back and read his early stuff. I definitely prefer his more recent novels, which, while not linear, seem more straightforward. This one follows the story of Buddy Bolden, a New Orleans jazz musician who had a nervous breakdown while performing in a parade and then was institutionalized and drifted into obscurity. The novel is made up of vignettes from the point of view of a variety of characters, as well as songs, poems, and (presumably fictional) interviews and other documents. As with all of Ondaatje's work, his use of language is amazing. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/244914?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>