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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
"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
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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