A review by sidneyterano
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

dark funny hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

Slaughterhouse-Five is a book of mantras, some defeatist, some hopeful, all useful. They let us honor the past and then leave it behind. What has and will be done will always be — Vonnegut does his damndest to grant us the peace to go on — advice we will always need until we are just artifacts to be observed by the 
Tralfamadorians. So it goes. If Billy Pilgrim is right and we spend eternity revisiting old moments, then life has a purpose: to make as many great moments as possible.