A review by fabbioscarito
Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut

challenging dark funny reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Hard to put into words. Vonnegut manages to juggle absurdity with profundity in a way they somehow harmonise. While I'm struggling to decipher exactly the reason for the link between the narrator and Billy Pilgrim, the effect of their union isn't lost; that being that these horrors can affect anyone, not just now but forever. It is a text of duality, of laughter and sadness, horror and beauty, right and wrong. It never wavers in providing the perfect balancing act of that duality.