“Slaughterhouse-5” came to my attention a while ago after reading an article about a Missouri school board that banned the book for his profanity (apparently “it would make a sailor blush”), and for practically everything else. Coming from a family where the notion of banning books is as foreign as ...
I never read Vonnegut in high school or in college, and this book was the second Vonnegut work I've read. I'm finding reviewing this book to be rather difficult.;First, the book is highly important piece of literature. It is a good anti-war book. The narrative tone is great, the humanity of the c...
Although I disagree that this is Vonnegut's best, Slaughterhouse 5 truly is an amazing, though very absurd novel. It's post-modern stream-of-consciousness sequence of events is fascinating. Billy Pilgrim, our main character, becomes unstuck in time as we are told the non-linear story of his life i...
Summary:Kurt Vonnegut's absurdist classic Slaughterhouse-Five introduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who becomes unstuck in time after he is abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore. In a plot-scrambling display of virtuosity, we follow Pilgrim simultaneously through all phases of his life, co...
I cannot say this book was brilliant, because it wasn't. But, it was still pretty good. This book may be classified science fiction (just because an unheard of planet and life form is included in the plot), but I don't see it that way. In science fiction books, the setting (other planets), charact...
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