Slaughterhouse-Five in Never too Late to Read Classics

Jul 13, 2012 Carrie rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: science-fiction, classics, time-travel, aliens, dance-party, perksofbeingabookworm-rec-swap, kurt-vonnegut, war, rlftci

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

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Dec 01, 2018 Kelly_Hunsaker_reads ... rated it liked it

Shelves: 1001-books, satire, historical-fiction, science-fiction

The first thing I need to say is that I have a bias against science fiction. I rarely enjoy it. That has a big impact on my rating, because for me this felt like two books. The first was this odd time-travel, alien-world, science fiction book that baffled me. I didn't connect with it at all. But the examination of the Dresden bombings, the moments spent in the shoes of Americans who are being held as POWs in Germany, the satiric anti-war voice were spot on. I felt like the book made me think, ma ...more

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Jul 02, 2014 Tom Britz rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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, ...more

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Dec 03, 2015 Karen rated it liked it

It was about time that I got around to reading this book. So it goes. To be honest, I was a bit disappointed, because I thought I would love it. I think if the book had really been about the bombing of Dresden during WWII ( or should I say completely about Dresden, I might have liked it better.

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