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Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Start date: February 1, 2012

Finish date: March 2, 2012

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Jul 24, 2012 Sheila rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites, reviewed, boxalls-1001

First reaction: Very readable, but the narrative is not simple. Any story about the effects of war is not simple.

This book is also a metafiction, to my surprise. The first chapter, for instance, is a preface, a long one. So expect to be rewarded by the intimacy of Vonnegut explaining to the reader why he wrote Slaughterhouse Five and how he wrote it in such a way that makes sense to him.

The story starts with Billy Pilgrim who goes to war as a chaplain's assistant and on an assignment, finds him ...more

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Mar 21, 2011 Ali rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 2011, high-school, rory-gilmore-book-challenge, classics

I understand the obsession with Vonnegut. I think the fact that my English teacher who is completely apathetic to everything we read actually adores Vonnegut and his novels shows and gets excited about it helps me a lot. This book is a masterpiece. It's not so much the antiwar message, but it's themes in general. We are just average machines who in a larger perspective have no effect on the fate of the world. So it goes. But we can still relish the moments we have cause they always have and will ...more

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