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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
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
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
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Book #142 for 2011
Book #142 for 2011
This is a cleverly written novel that held my attention the whole time. I was turning the pages with interest. Mostly it is a description of what happened to the character Billy Pilgrim in World War Two. The story overlaps with the experience of the author including being a prisoner of war and the fire bombing of Dresden. It's an anti war novel but written in a new way.
The story has an interesting structure because Billy is a time traveler. We find out all about his life in flash backs and flash ...more
The story has an interesting structure because Billy is a time traveler. We find out all about his life in flash backs and flash ...more
Sep 17, 2010
Renu r singh
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Hettie
marked it as tbr-eventually
Nov 09, 2011
Meagan
marked it as owned-but-not-yet-read
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