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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 the story of Billy Pilgrim, a man who becomes unstuck in time after he is abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore.
I can't imagine experiencing something like this - but Vonnegut has a way of bringing it to life. He's able to depict these awful scenes, but use humour at just the right moment and in just the right way to keep things from getting too heavy.
This was my first Vonnegut book, and definitely not my last.
So it goes. ...more
This was my first Vonnegut book, and definitely not my last.
So it goes. ...more
I like the idea of this book. the contents and structures...
anti-war, time travel, Vonnegut - great stuff
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