Slaughterhouse Five
by:
Kurt Vonnegut (author)
Prisoner of war, optometrist, time-traveller - these are the life roles of Billy Pilgrim, hero of this miraculously moving, bitter and funny story of innocence faced with apocalypse. Slaughterhouse 5 is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centring on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden in...
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Prisoner of war, optometrist, time-traveller - these are the life roles of Billy Pilgrim, hero of this miraculously moving, bitter and funny story of innocence faced with apocalypse. Slaughterhouse 5 is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centring on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden in the Second World War, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780099800200 (0099800209)
Publish date: 2000
Publisher: Vintage Classics
Pages no: 177
Edition language: English
Took some pages for the book to grab me. If I'm honest, I'm pretty sure it was the chat with his war-buddy's wife, and as it happens, it is something of a key for the whole book. There was a promise there If I ever do finish it, though, I give you my word of honor: there won’t be a part for Frank...
I'm not sure how Vonnegut pulled this off. It was all over the fucking place. And it all worked. The whole time I was reading it, I had the feeling that I was reading something extraordinary. And I was.
2 1/2 stars. Kurt Vonnegut is undoubtedly a good writer. The trouble is, that I enjoyed the introduction where he was describing his own experiences much more than the bulk of the book where he told us Billy Pilgrim's story. Kurt himself is a more interesting person than Billy. Or maybe I just did...
Ik vond dit zo'n apart verhaal, en moeilijk om een review over te schrijven.Ik denk namelijk dat het een verhaal is over PTSD (al bestond dat in die tijd nog niet), door oorlogstrauma.En ik denk dat de Tralfamadoriens de Duitsers moeten voorstellen?Overigens werkte dat steeds terugkomende zinnetje '...
Panowie z kabaretu TEJ mówili w jednym skeczu: - Oglądałeś CZTERECH PANCERNYCH? - Gdybyśmy trzy takie czołgi mieli, to byśmy sobie sami tę wojnę wygrali. Był taki szczęśliwy czas, że zaprzestano wyświetlania tego serialu w TV przez zarzut przedstawiania fałszywego obrazu wojny. „Rzeźnia” w nie...
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