Slaughterhouse-Five in Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge

Jan 12, 2020 Lucinda rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: popsugar-2020

Popsugar 2020 - A book published in the month of your birthday. I have gone a step further and found a book that was published on the same day I was born!

Well, that was an unusual book!

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Sep 02, 2007 Jeff Scott rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: overdrive-library, 1001books, science-fiction, fiction, classics, re-read

Some things cannot be undone, but it is feels good to imagine that they could. I was listening to Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut. It had been some time since I read the book. I downloaded the book from Overdrive.

While I was listening to the book, I hadn't realized that the sequence of the book had been altered. The book is divided into six one-hour parts. As I listened, I actually heard part six instead of part three. It is a coincidence that this happened since the book itself are snippe ...more

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Sep 13, 2007 Debbie rated it it was amazing

Shelves: sciencefiction, historical-fiction

Part science fiction and part memoir, Slaughterhouse-Five is based on Vonnegut's experiences as a POW during WWII. He was held captive in Germany, where he witnessed the bombing of Dresden that killed thousands of civilians and much precious artwork.

Billy Pilgrim is a man who has become unstuck in time and we follow him on his travels through time and space (including his experience in Dresden). This anti-war novel uses humor to make us examine the utter absurdity of war.

An easy and entertainin ...more

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