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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
PLOT
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
Dear Pretties,
First off, this book is just freaking weird!
One minute you're in a normal situation, following a WWII P.O.W.veteran, and then thrown into this madhouse of a plot about aliens. WTF? I'll reserve judgment for now.
All right, now that I have had a lot of time to reflect on this book; I can officially say I'm on the fence of love and hate. It was nice getting so many recommendations for this, and the writing was well paced and shared a lot of emotions. Anyone who might have a r ...more
First off, this book is just freaking weird!
One minute you're in a normal situation, following a WWII P.O.W.veteran, and then thrown into this madhouse of a plot about aliens. WTF? I'll reserve judgment for now.
All right, now that I have had a lot of time to reflect on this book; I can officially say I'm on the fence of love and hate. It was nice getting so many recommendations for this, and the writing was well paced and shared a lot of emotions. Anyone who might have a r ...more
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