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4.5/5
My second book by Kurt Vonnegut Jr in a row - reading this after Breakfast of Champions.
It is just hard to stop reading a Kurt's book - so much novelty and so little seriousness!!
Billy Pilgrim is a lost mind. He never dies and his mind takes him to different times at random. He just has no clue like us where he will be led to next. He takes us through the events of his unusual life - of being on a spaceship of aliens from Tralfamador who kidnap him(looks mostly like for experimentation and ...more
My second book by Kurt Vonnegut Jr in a row - reading this after Breakfast of Champions.
It is just hard to stop reading a Kurt's book - so much novelty and so little seriousness!!
Billy Pilgrim is a lost mind. He never dies and his mind takes him to different times at random. He just has no clue like us where he will be led to next. He takes us through the events of his unusual life - of being on a spaceship of aliens from Tralfamador who kidnap him(looks mostly like for experimentation and ...more
I fell in love with a book, then it ended.
So it goes.
War is fought by mere babies. So it goes.
Many of these babies die; some come home and grow old. So it goes.
Old soldiers sometimes become old drunks with breathe that smells of roses and mustard gas. So it goes.
Billy Pilgrim becomes unstuck in time. So it goes.
He travels back an forth through different moments in his life. So it goes.
Some of these moments were during the second world war. So it goes.
Dresden, Germany ...more
War is fought by mere babies. So it goes.
Many of these babies die; some come home and grow old. So it goes.
Old soldiers sometimes become old drunks with breathe that smells of roses and mustard gas. So it goes.
Billy Pilgrim becomes unstuck in time. So it goes.
He travels back an forth through different moments in his life. So it goes.
Some of these moments were during the second world war. So it goes.
Dresden, Germany ...more
I, finally, read this book. I am glad I did, although it was quite a tragic journey. WWII/Dresden is and never will be an easy topic for me to read, let alone any war, really. Lives are lost, people are starved and tortured. "So it goes." But this also happens in day to day life throughout the world. I guess I just want to continue to hope peace will be on earth one day. Hope is better than nothing at all, in my opinion.
The thing about war is this, it will always exist. It's, simply, the realit ...more
The thing about war is this, it will always exist. It's, simply, the realit ...more
Good solid read. So it goes!
A strange and wonderful tale.
May 11, 2011
Glenda
marked it as to-read
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Annie Payne
marked it as to-read
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Simone
marked it as to-read
