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Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Start date: June 5, 2015

Finish date: June 6, 2015

Discussion: 2015 Challenge Prompts

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Prompt 25: A book you were supposed to read in school but didn't
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Nov 29, 2018 Maryam rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: classics, science-fiction

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Oct 20, 2010 Lydia Presley rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: social_issues, 2010, fiction, 1001

I have struggled with this book for the last three days. I was tempted more than once to put it down and just not finish it. At the 50 page mark, 100 page mark, 150 pages mark.. each milestone I struggled with that temptation and each time I made myself read a little bit more.

Contrary to what the GoodReads summary says about Slaughterhouse-Five, this was not book that contained an "ease of reading" for me. It took a bit for me to grow accustomed to the jumping about through time and space to fol ...more

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Sep 21, 2011 Jen Peters rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: sci-fi

I tried so hard to like this book. It is so popular and gets such great reviews, and I have had it on a list to read for years. But, I hate the whole random time travle thing, the random aliens that you learn little about, and just the scatteredness of the story. I am glad I gave it a try, but I would never reread or even recommend this book.

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Dec 10, 2011 martha rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: year-2005, time-travel

[2005 review.] I've had this sitting on my shelf for ages, but never read it since I, um, thought it would be boring because it's famous. Instead it's a fast, fascinating, unusual read, very powerful, a melange of war stories and science fiction and a world that doesn't make sense.

[2012 note: I gave my brother a copy of this for his birthday this year and he stayed up all night reading it. BOOM! Gifting success!] ...more

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