15.4k reviews for:

Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut

4.06 AVERAGE

rbentley88's review against another edition

3.5

challenging emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

aidannelson23's review against another edition

4.0

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My first Vonnegut book. Enjoyed it, but I'm going to put off reading more of his stuff until I'm older. I couldn't shake the feeling that I wasn't properly appreciating what I was reading. The description of war backwards was unexplainably brilliant, however.

coral_moon's review against another edition

4.25

dark tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

hllverel's review against another edition

4.0

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A hard to read but still very compelling book.

thegordianknit's review against another edition

4.25

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A book that tells you exactly what it’s doing and is excellent at doing it. Not especially fun to read, but not trying to be.  

looney_lily's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

bee23's review against another edition

4.0

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Surprisingly, I haven't read this book before now, though it's been on my shelf forever to get to. I know most people read it in school, but I always ended up with the English teacher that told us "you probably read that last year so we're going to read something different" and I ended up missing out on a lot of classics. Finally found some time to go back through them. This book is really fascinating to read and I enjoyed the way the story unfolded. Even though it is constantly jumping time I felt oriented throughout, and I can see why it's become a classic. The way Vonnegut handles the unfolding of the story is simply brilliant, and it builds and builds to the end even though you know everything that is going to happen.

nathalie_tl's review against another edition

3.25

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i recognise how clever and well-crafted this book is, and yet it felt like a very meh reading experience. glad to have read it, i doubt it will really stick with me.

luxurydad's review against another edition

5.0

funny reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

alexf7's review against another edition

2.25

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny informative reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes