Slaughterhouse-Five in Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge

Jun 02, 2014 Sarah rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: sci-fi, classics

I don't really know where to start with this book. Much like 1984 it is part novel part political/sociological study. The style of the prose is very quick and fleeting, and the story jumps around in time and geography so quickly that you don't really get a chance to connect with many of the characters and it sometimes feels like you're reading more the outline for a story than the story itself. But I suspect that this was probably intentional, to give an understanding of how war and the aftermat ...more

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Jun 30, 2008 Lisa rated it really liked it

My first impression of this, my first Vonnegut was that it was choppy, and a lot of chatter about nothing.
"It is so short and jumbled and jangled, Sam because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre"
This quote explained Vonnegut to me. It was all a literary device for him set the tone for the book, reveal his ideas of the futility, but inevitability of war.
I started to find his tragic and sometimes morbid humor comical as he made light of even the most tragic events by saying "So ...more

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May 18, 2011 Leslie rated it liked it

Shelves: 2011-reads, audio-books

This one was tough to rate, because the narrator I listened to in the audio book version (Ethan Hawke) really did not do it for me. It was hard for to keep focus on the narrative.

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