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Didn't fully engage with this because it's expressed so simply. (There are books I keep in case of being ill and not up to anything more complex in structure, but it never would have occurred to me to do that with a modern classic like this one. The short episodes and random switching between time periods in Slaughterhouse-Five would work very well if dizzy or feverish. Or if you're one of those whose boat it floats, reading it whilst high.)
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The more time I dwell on this novel (I finished it almost two months ago), the more I reflect on the psychological scars that all wartime soldiers must undoubtedly wrestle with for the rest of their lives. Vonnegut’s experiences are Billy Pilgrim (the main character)’s experiences. In Slaughterhouse-Five, Billy Pilgrim created an alternate universe, where no one really died, in order to deal with the horrors and the never-ending, lifetime flashbacks of what he had witnessed. But how did Vonnegut
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