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Slaughterhouse-Five is a fantastic book. Dark, funny, intelligent, sad. Billy Pilgrim, the main character in this book is an American POW. We get to experience is life, some times a few times over as he travels through time and his life in the Tralfamadorians zoo.
This has got me thinking, did Billy really time travel and were there really aliens. Perhaps these are the memories of a man who had survived Dresden. Perhaps, something snapped at some point, a result of the war, and as he is just rem ...more
This has got me thinking, did Billy really time travel and were there really aliens. Perhaps these are the memories of a man who had survived Dresden. Perhaps, something snapped at some point, a result of the war, and as he is just rem ...more
This is clearly the best Vonnegut I have read. In typical Vonnegut fashion he playfully leads the reader over a surrealistic landscape dropping little crumbs of wisdom for you to follow. The major theme of this work is its anti war stance. The novel states that war is a necessity of life just as death is, so it goes. However death is not the final product. Life is ongoing and it loops and turns back upon itself all the time. As I read this 1969 novel, written during America's anti war movement,
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anti-war, time travel, Vonnegut - great stuff
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