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Prompt 25: A book you were supposed to read in school but didn't
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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
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I've never read any Kurt Vonnegut before Slaughterhouse Five. This was the 2013 for Ferndale Reads and I was a bit hesitant. Once I got into the groove of his writing I found myself enjoying it.
The book starts with a veteran of the Dresden bombing talking about how he wants to write a book about the Dresden bombing. It also includes one of the best descriptions of drunk dialing I've read. It's nice to know that it's not a modern concept.
The book then jumps into the life of Billy Pilgrim. Billy P ...more
The book starts with a veteran of the Dresden bombing talking about how he wants to write a book about the Dresden bombing. It also includes one of the best descriptions of drunk dialing I've read. It's nice to know that it's not a modern concept.
The book then jumps into the life of Billy Pilgrim. Billy P ...more
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.
Aug 05, 2008
Marcella
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it was amazing
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