A review by tatiannaskye
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

adventurous challenging reflective fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

All along I thought this book was anti-war and such. But it is so much more than that, I mean the lessons it conveys are out of this world (see what I did there). This book could be interpreted in many ways for me I interpreted it as Billy Pilgrim has a strong case of ptsd or ptss (whichever one prefers). How no matter where he is or what he is doing in the present he is always in the past in Dresden. And that one never really leaves war after being in it and seeing it’s horrors and experiencing them too. Also the plane crash is another contributing factor to why he thinks the way he does and such. Maybe when he was in the accident his brain got all jumbled up and he took the books he’s read by Kilgore and made them into reality his reality. All in all it was a wonderful book and just an experience in and of itself reading this book. Can’t wait to read more books by vonnegut and hope they are just as wonderful.
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