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Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Start date: March 1, 2015

Finish date: March 31, 2015

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Nov 07, 2010 Cecily rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: scifi-future-speculative-fict, usa-and-canada, time-travel

A strange and intriguing book that I found very hard to rate: a mixture of wartime memoir and sci fi - occasionally harrowing, sometimes funny and other times thought-provoking.

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It is the episodic story of Billy Pilgrim, a small town American boy, who is a POW in the second world war, later becomes a successful optometrist and who occasionally and accidentally travels in time to other periods of his life, so he has "memories of the future". Oh, he also gets abducted by aliens, along with som ...more

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Sep 19, 2011 K. G. Whitehurst rated it liked it · review of another edition

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I am done with Vonnegut. I've read both this novel and SIRENS OF TITAN, and I can say with certainty, I have no use for absurdism in novel-length doses. I prefer small, black-humored doses of absurdism. However, Vonnegut's assault on the absurdity of war and weirdness of who does and doesn't survive is well done. He's got some great lines; my two favorite are the following: " Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why" (97) and “Goodness me, the clock ha ...more

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