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4.06 AVERAGE
4.06 AVERAGE
—¡Entonces no erais más que niños !
—¿Qué? —pregunté.
—Durante la guerra no erais más que unos niños, como los que ahora juegan arriba. Asentí. Era cierto, durante la guerra no éramos más que unos necios e ingenuos bebés, recién sacados del regazo de la madre. —Pero no lo escribirás así, claro —prosiguió. No era una pregunta; era una acusación.
—Yo… no sé —balbucí.
—Pues yo sí que lo sé —exclamó—. Pretenderás hacer creer que erais verdaderos hombres, no unos niños, y un día seréis representados en el cine por Frank Sinatra, John Wayne o cualquier otro de los encantadores y guerreros galanes de la pantalla. Y la guerra parecerá algo tan maravilloso que tendremos muchas más. Y la harán unos niños como los que están jugando arriba.
[...]
Los dos intentaban rehacerse a sí mismos y rehacer el universo entero. Y por eso la ciencia ficción constituía una tan gran ayuda para ellos.
[...]
En esta historia no existen personajes ni situaciones dramáticas, puesto que la mayoría de personajes que la integran están enfermos y son totalmente ajenos al juego de los grandes poderes.
Una lectura recomendable. Creo que esas tres citas dicen más de lo que yo podría agregar para animarlos a leer:
La ciencia ficción y el humor como forma de acercarse al horror.
A las guerras las luchan los niños, lejos de los grandes poderes.
El bombardeo de Dresde, del que no se habla lo suficiente.
—¿Qué? —pregunté.
—Durante la guerra no erais más que unos niños, como los que ahora juegan arriba. Asentí. Era cierto, durante la guerra no éramos más que unos necios e ingenuos bebés, recién sacados del regazo de la madre. —Pero no lo escribirás así, claro —prosiguió. No era una pregunta; era una acusación.
—Yo… no sé —balbucí.
—Pues yo sí que lo sé —exclamó—. Pretenderás hacer creer que erais verdaderos hombres, no unos niños, y un día seréis representados en el cine por Frank Sinatra, John Wayne o cualquier otro de los encantadores y guerreros galanes de la pantalla. Y la guerra parecerá algo tan maravilloso que tendremos muchas más. Y la harán unos niños como los que están jugando arriba.
[...]
Los dos intentaban rehacerse a sí mismos y rehacer el universo entero. Y por eso la ciencia ficción constituía una tan gran ayuda para ellos.
[...]
En esta historia no existen personajes ni situaciones dramáticas, puesto que la mayoría de personajes que la integran están enfermos y son totalmente ajenos al juego de los grandes poderes.
Una lectura recomendable. Creo que esas tres citas dicen más de lo que yo podría agregar para animarlos a leer:
La ciencia ficción y el humor como forma de acercarse al horror.
A las guerras las luchan los niños, lejos de los grandes poderes.
El bombardeo de Dresde, del que no se habla lo suficiente.
challenging
dark
funny
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Morsom, ambisiøs, og reflektert.
challenging
dark
funny
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This was a surprisingly quick read, for the tortoise page turner I tend to be.
a story about a man who had gotten schizophrenia from coping with war as he wasn't a mentally strong man in the first place.
so it goes.
he makes wrong choices. he lives his life all over the place. he doesn't find happiness, he finds experience everywhere. he has ptsd. he remembers everything vividly as a plane crash has destroyed any remnant of sanity he had left.
why war? there is no rhyme or reason. we are all people. Fick.
so it goes.
he makes wrong choices. he lives his life all over the place. he doesn't find happiness, he finds experience everywhere. he has ptsd. he remembers everything vividly as a plane crash has destroyed any remnant of sanity he had left.
why war? there is no rhyme or reason. we are all people. Fick.
Billy Pilgrim has become unstuck in time. As a result, he travels backwards and forwards, in and out of his past, his present and his future. At various times these travels take him to the fire-bombing of Dresden in WWII, his optometry practice, and a zoo where he is kept and observed by aliens from Tralfamadore.
This would all seem quite odd if it wasn't written by Kurt Vonnegut...and if it didn't make so much damned sense.
Like any good liberal college student, I read Vonnegut's most famous novel as a young man and I enjoyed it - although I can't say that much stuck with my from that first reading. Feeling that I needed a refresher, I picked up Slaughterhouse Five and dove right in. What I found was a very wise and masterful piece of fiction. In telling us of the remarkable life of Billy Pilgrim, Vonnegut makes us face our own thoughts about mortality, humanity, honesty...and just about any other "-ty" you can think of.
If I had to give a straightforward summary of the novel, I'm not sure that I could, but that's part of the genius of Vonnegut. It is a novel about nothing...that just so happens to be about everything. I can't imagine how an author can sit and plot such a work that skips in and out of time, making Pilgrim walk from one situation into another that perfectly complements it (though they happened decades apart).
Brilliant, chilling, funny and profound, Slaughterhouse Five deserves its place in the history of great American novels.
This would all seem quite odd if it wasn't written by Kurt Vonnegut...and if it didn't make so much damned sense.
Like any good liberal college student, I read Vonnegut's most famous novel as a young man and I enjoyed it - although I can't say that much stuck with my from that first reading. Feeling that I needed a refresher, I picked up Slaughterhouse Five and dove right in. What I found was a very wise and masterful piece of fiction. In telling us of the remarkable life of Billy Pilgrim, Vonnegut makes us face our own thoughts about mortality, humanity, honesty...and just about any other "-ty" you can think of.
If I had to give a straightforward summary of the novel, I'm not sure that I could, but that's part of the genius of Vonnegut. It is a novel about nothing...that just so happens to be about everything. I can't imagine how an author can sit and plot such a work that skips in and out of time, making Pilgrim walk from one situation into another that perfectly complements it (though they happened decades apart).
Brilliant, chilling, funny and profound, Slaughterhouse Five deserves its place in the history of great American novels.
Initial thoughts: I just wasn't interested. It was weird and I was bored.
Review: This was my first Vonnegut book and I was pretty excited because of the praise this author receives. Not sure if it was this book, or if maybe I am not going to be a fan of his writing, but Slaughterhouse-Five was so lame. Half the time I was wondering what in the world was going on, who was narrating the story, and really, what was the point? But I really wanted to push through so instead of continuing to read it, I downloaded an audiobook copy of it instead of hoping I'd get through it that way.
Wrong. I found myself daydreaming for a lot of it, and having to rewind it constantly to catch what I had missed. About 40% of the way through, I decided to give up. I definitely want to look into more of Vonnegut's books; there are plenty to pick from. I hope I have better luck with the next one.
Review: This was my first Vonnegut book and I was pretty excited because of the praise this author receives. Not sure if it was this book, or if maybe I am not going to be a fan of his writing, but Slaughterhouse-Five was so lame. Half the time I was wondering what in the world was going on, who was narrating the story, and really, what was the point? But I really wanted to push through so instead of continuing to read it, I downloaded an audiobook copy of it instead of hoping I'd get through it that way.
Wrong. I found myself daydreaming for a lot of it, and having to rewind it constantly to catch what I had missed. About 40% of the way through, I decided to give up. I definitely want to look into more of Vonnegut's books; there are plenty to pick from. I hope I have better luck with the next one.
Not into the killing and trauma. I’ll read the cliffs notes
adventurous
dark
funny
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
funny
informative
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes