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Review: SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut
As a lifelong voracious reader, I had no doubt been aware of SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE since its publication. But until I chose to read it for Banned Books Week 2017, I had never read it, nor indeed any Vonnegut. {I know, lapse in my education.}
I find Vonnegut quite enjoyable (despite the grievous setting of the story). He is wry, ironic, humble. {I might contrast another famed author of the period, "literary lion" Norman Mailer, or of an earlier period, Wil ...more
As a lifelong voracious reader, I had no doubt been aware of SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE since its publication. But until I chose to read it for Banned Books Week 2017, I had never read it, nor indeed any Vonnegut. {I know, lapse in my education.}
I find Vonnegut quite enjoyable (despite the grievous setting of the story). He is wry, ironic, humble. {I might contrast another famed author of the period, "literary lion" Norman Mailer, or of an earlier period, Wil ...more
One of those "honest book titles" memes called this Doctor Who With PTSD. That seems like a good description.
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Si je n'avais pas lu, la bio et le prologue, je n'aurais jamais déclaré ce roman comme un ouvrage anti-guerre. L'histoire est somme tout très linéaire, comme l'écriture et le personnage principal. Au moins j'en aurai appris plus sur le bombardement de Dresde, mais ça ne va pas plus loin.
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