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Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

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sister_philosophy_dropout's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

Put this classic off for years because I'd been cautioned many times that it was "pretty dark." If you have read any firsthand accounts of any war or know what happened during WWII, no content in this book will shock you. That said, it was even funnier than advertised by friends. Just goofy. If you enjoy Vonnegut's voice, this is a must-read.

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library_kb's review against another edition

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dark medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.0

I went into this not excited about it....and it was simultaneously easier to read than I expected and less easy to read. I read this because it was part of the Upper School's summer reading options, which I wanted to have read all of...I would be curious to see if/which students pick this option and what they take from it. The style of jumping around from time period to time period was not super easy to follow. The nice thing is that there was a lot of page breaks which made the book read pretty quickly (plus it isn't super long, which was its saving grace). I don't know why you need a story like this to tell you war is awful and pointless, but there you have it.

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josieruby1's review against another edition

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3.75

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paulwesterberg's review against another edition

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dark funny hopeful reflective fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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dark funny reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

I knew very little about Slaughterhouse-Five before actually picking it up, so I wasn't expecting it to be so humorous. Or, to maybe put it more accurately, I wasn't expecting humor to play a role in how Vonnegut portrays the grief, trauma, and absurdity of war specifically and life in general. I can't say this novel's heavy, but I do think it's striking, in the way Vonnegut depicts the relationship between time and pain. Is it a consolation or a tragedy that everything bad and everything good in the world has already happened, is always happening, will always be happening?

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brainstewww's review against another edition

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dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

Vonnegut's usual dark humor shines through in this powerful anti-war novel. This is unlike most of the books I usually read, but I knew I liked Vonnegut's work, so I was quick to pick it up AND quick to finish it.

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deannamartin113's review against another edition

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emotional slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? N/A
Strong character development? N/A
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

*I have Thoughts*

1. This is a PRIME example why books should NOT be banned. When a book is banned, we create the ‘Streisand Effect’ surrounding it, which encourages people to want to read it. These folks expect to find, and then elevate, what they think are profound expositions in it.
2. Kurt Vonnegut was a troubled soul. No doubt the war did it to him. He wrote the book simply to be offensive for the sake of being offensive.
3. This is NOT a classic. It’s a CULT classic. There’s a huge difference. Think of it as a classic for the kind of people who get duped by the likes of Charles Manson. (I’m pulling no punches here). This book is awful, imo.
4. I looked up the essays from ‘explaining’ Slaughterhouse 5 and those essays that actually claim that you can ‘find the gospel’ in it. I find it particularly offensive that Christians feel the need to read this, much less buy into the notion that they find Truth in it.
5. There is no Truth here. There is no Goodness here. There is nothing of VALUE here.
6. I made the mistake of believing it was a ‘classic’ and allowing my teen daughter to read this. I’m convinced this affected how she sees the gospel today.
7. The impropriety of his ‘jokes’ about other people groups would be a reason for the Woke crowd to demand this book be pulled from library shelves today; but, because it fits within their narrative, it’s okay to call Down’s Syndrome kids ‘idiots’ and make all the Polish jokes you want. 🤯
8. There is transgender theory in here. It is not masked in anyway. It is also handed to young minds as from the ‘higher power’ & much more intelligent minds of the Tralfamadorians. Because, of course, aliens who can see four dimensions and never go to war, are much more moral and better than us stupid humans who believe in a God. It’s much more sensible to believe in little green men who abduct us in the middle of the night, put us in a human zoo on their planet to watch humans have sex, and control our whole environment by putting us in and out of the timeline of our life as they please.

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