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Slaughterhouse-Five
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July 1, 2023
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July 31, 2023
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What Members Thought

Carrie
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
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Amanda
Jun 22, 2009 rated it it was ok
I'm really glad to be finished with this book. For a short book it took me too long to read. I persevered and didn't hate it but its not really my cup of tea. It was different than I expected. I knew it was about a WWII prisoner of war experience during the bombing of Dresden but I was not prepared for space aliens and time travel. ...more
Genevieve
Jul 07, 2009 rated it really liked it
Absurd, cracked me up the whole time. An anti-war book and had some really interesting ideas about time - everything is happening at once, not on a horizontal timeline...
Ames
Mar 26, 2008 rated it it was amazing
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Kaitlin
Jun 01, 2008 marked it as to-read
Jen
Jun 21, 2008 rated it really liked it
Shelves: favorites
Sunflower
Jun 28, 2008 rated it really liked it
Shelves: oldies
Catie
Aug 11, 2008 marked it as to-read
Jen
Nov 11, 2008 rated it really liked it
Jennifer Ozawa
Apr 10, 2009 rated it really liked it
Shelves: 4-stars, 2009, non-linear
Melissa (So Cal Gal)
Jul 24, 2009 marked it as to-read
Elena
Feb 03, 2010 rated it really liked it
Kat (A Journey In Reading)
Apr 17, 2010 marked it as to-read
Shelves: classics
Mimi
Aug 14, 2010 marked it as to-read
Amanda R
Dec 05, 2010 rated it it was ok
Basia
Feb 04, 2011 rated it really liked it
Jasper
Feb 11, 2011 marked it as to-read
Joseph
May 05, 2011 rated it really liked it
Lindsay
Jun 13, 2011 rated it liked it
Kathie
Mar 30, 2012 rated it really liked it
Laura
May 16, 2012 rated it it was ok
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May 19, 2012 marked it as to-read
Adrianne
May 26, 2012 rated it it was amazing
Dana Arbelaez
Jan 17, 2013 marked it as to-read
Lea
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ShelleyO
Apr 28, 2014 rated it it was amazing
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Dec 17, 2017 marked it as to-read
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