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4.06 AVERAGE
4.06 AVERAGE
Vonnegut is funny and crazy. Very immediate and entertaining, but also wild. Haven’t read a book like this before.
Found me when I needed it most. A book I will revisit time and again.
medium-paced
To be honest - I don't understand the recommendations for this book. After it was praised in the highest forms in my bubble, it felt like a pretty basic and forgettable read.
The idea of writing very light and funny and on the next page being confronted with the harsh reality of war and death get's boring pretty quick. It's one of the few stylistic devices of this novel. I was, at one point, just annoyed by the repetitive "So it goes".
I dare say: you can easily skip this book and won't have missed much.
The idea of writing very light and funny and on the next page being confronted with the harsh reality of war and death get's boring pretty quick. It's one of the few stylistic devices of this novel. I was, at one point, just annoyed by the repetitive "So it goes".
I dare say: you can easily skip this book and won't have missed much.
dark
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
dark
funny
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
dark
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five was a frightening, funny, and engaging novel. I really enjoyed how the narrative begins with Vonnegut himself struggling to write the book, how he was a character that appeared occasionally, and how it tied to the theme of being "unstuck" from time. The bombing of Dresden was clearly deeply traumatic and the way he discussed it was simple and simply disturbing. We know it's coming. We know most of what is coming, but what's interesting becomes how the character Billy interacts with that seemingly fluid moment of time and how he tells it. The aliens, the time-travel, and narrative all illustrate the coping mechanism of our character (and author, separately).
Also, what a hilarious book. I loved the science fiction writer Trout and the absurd plots to his terribly selling books; however, even these occasionally carry disturbing meaning. For instance, the robot who spews napalm had me laughing out loud at one moment and reminded me of the terrible horrors of the Vietnam war the next. The book does this sort of thing often. Billy is very bafoonish and very tragic. There are a lot of dick jokes that began to wear me down a little bit; the repetition of "so it goes" was good, then annoying, then good again.
This is an antiwar classic though. It's a classic so you gotta respect it. You gotta love it and you gotta read it. When you read it, you gotta love it because Vonnegut is a beast who hated George Bush and wrote great books.
Also, what a hilarious book. I loved the science fiction writer Trout and the absurd plots to his terribly selling books; however, even these occasionally carry disturbing meaning. For instance, the robot who spews napalm had me laughing out loud at one moment and reminded me of the terrible horrors of the Vietnam war the next. The book does this sort of thing often. Billy is very bafoonish and very tragic. There are a lot of dick jokes that began to wear me down a little bit; the repetition of "so it goes" was good, then annoying, then good again.
This is an antiwar classic though. It's a classic so you gotta respect it. You gotta love it and you gotta read it. When you read it, you gotta love it because Vonnegut is a beast who hated George Bush and wrote great books.
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot