A Book A Day ... Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut (back to the classics)
Okay, Yeah, I know. I'm late to the party here, 'so it goes.' I finally checked this book out of the library and was simply astonished. I loved it. I loved Billy Pilgrim and Vonnegut's sardonic view of war and how this wasn't going to be a "war novel." It's about people trying to survive atrocities (the bombings in Dresden) and making sense of the horror of war. (No one, we see, can make sense of the horror of war). The refrain, "so it goes," rings all too true.
I loved the timelessness and the idea that every moment is meaningless yet packed with meaning, and the idea that Billy Pilgrim could free fall back into any moment in his life and just "be." It takes the whole time-space continuum and knocks it on its head.
And I loved the prose. Tight and surprising. Unexpected.
Blurb:
Slaughterhous-Five is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know.
Age: 15+
I loved the timelessness and the idea that every moment is meaningless yet packed with meaning, and the idea that Billy Pilgrim could free fall back into any moment in his life and just "be." It takes the whole time-space continuum and knocks it on its head.
And I loved the prose. Tight and surprising. Unexpected.
Blurb:
Slaughterhous-Five is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know.
Age: 15+
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