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A review by donnaadouglas
Armageddon in Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut
4.0
It's been so refreshing to read a collection of short stories. I can't remember the last time I did that. The fact that the stories were all connected by the common theme of war, inspired by Vonnegut's own experiences fighting in Europe, and as a POW in Dresden, where he witnessed the city's horrific firebombing, interested me all the more. I've been a WWII geek for a few years now, and I find war literature to be generally fascinating and chillingly beautiful.
Vonnegut's own unique vision blends well with visceral realism, and I feel that this makes his message even more hard-hitting: war sucks, ok!?!
This was my introduction to Vonnegut. I've been wanting to read something by him for a long time now, and going by 'Armageddon in Retrospect', I'm definitely going to read more!
QUOTATIONS I LIKED
"It is with some regret that I here besmirch the nobility of our airmen, but boys, you killed an appalling lot of women and children."
"Dresden, a beautiful city, built in the art spirit, symbol of an admirable heritage, so anti-Nazi that Hitler visited it but twice during his whole reign, food and hospital center so bitterly needed now - plowed under and salt strewn in the furrows."
Vonnegut's own unique vision blends well with visceral realism, and I feel that this makes his message even more hard-hitting: war sucks, ok!?!
This was my introduction to Vonnegut. I've been wanting to read something by him for a long time now, and going by 'Armageddon in Retrospect', I'm definitely going to read more!
QUOTATIONS I LIKED
"It is with some regret that I here besmirch the nobility of our airmen, but boys, you killed an appalling lot of women and children."
"Dresden, a beautiful city, built in the art spirit, symbol of an admirable heritage, so anti-Nazi that Hitler visited it but twice during his whole reign, food and hospital center so bitterly needed now - plowed under and salt strewn in the furrows."