Slaughterhouse-Five in Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge

Sep 16, 2012 Rincey rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2012

Another 3.5 stars that I rounded up.

This book thoroughly depressed me, but I think that is why I enjoyed it so much... because it had such an effect on me. I hardly agree with the views of this books, of life just being meaningless, but I think that is also kind of the point. I just felt so sorry for Billy Pilgrim and how effected he was by the war that he couldn't tell his past from his present from his future. It was all just meaningless events leading to his eventual death. So it goes. ...more

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Jan 21, 2013 Alison rated it liked it

Shelves: fiction, bookclub

I read this, and then immediately re-read it (in one day, on a cross-country flight), because I felt like I was missing something. Why does everyone love this book so much? The re-read was useful, in that I was able to see more clearly some of the echoes and circularity in the book, and I did like it better the second time around. Mostly though, it just made me curious to know more about Vonnegut himself, and the narrator who occasionally interjects a few times as the "author." Really the author ...more

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Aug 10, 2009 William rated it really liked it · review of another edition

It is so short and jumbled and jangled, Sam, because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre.

This is one of the best anti-war books i've read, and it stands out from the rest for its unique style. Simultaneously angry and humorous, with the horrific nature of war mixed in with sci-fi-esque time travel, Vonnegut has created a novel that deals with the absurdity of war, leaving the reader lamenting, questioning, thinking... ...more

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