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Slaughterhouse 5

Kurt Vonnegut

4.06 AVERAGE


This is my favorite of Vonnegut but personally I’m still waiting for him to get to the slaughterhouse…

i honestly dont know how to score this book. might take a while
dark funny reflective fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

this was an interesting book but not my favorite
challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

A book about war should not be this whimsical, but here we are and I'm not mad about it.
challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
challenging dark sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
dark 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

“And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep” (p. 18).

“The champagne was dead. So it goes” (p. 73).

“…What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time” (p. 88).