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Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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Apr 24, 2011 Mr. Twinkie rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: best-of-classics, thebest100list, 1960-1970

Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse Five" is an absurd novel about the absurdity of war. Unfortunately, it is too confusing and unfocused to keep the interest of the reader and the repetitive plot didn't reach a climax that felt satisfying. A surprisingly disappointing read. :/

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"The orchestration of the moment was this: Barbara was only twenty-one years old, but she thought her father was senile, even though he was only forty-six--senile because of damage to his brain in the airplane cra ...more

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Mar 05, 2013 Tarina rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: classic, 2013

An American Classic

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Aug 08, 2013 Jenna rated it liked it

Subtlety is underrated. Vonnegut makes connections and the narrator's feelings a little too obvious. It's a sappy, oversimplified view of humanity that I have a lot of trouble calling beautiful.

The novel felt like a way of making peace with how life could continue after something so destructive. I don't think he's satirizing free will, but he sure leaves it up to the reader to determine if it exists or not. It's a nice, easy way to simplify and justify things that cause us anxieties. And I'm not ...more

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