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draykray 's review for:
Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
I can understand why it’s a classic, but it’s also not a book that super speaks to me personally.
The way time was approached was really interesting and I think it does a pretty good job representing ptsd and dissociation. You could never quite tell where and when Billie Pilgrim actually was and that was really the coolest part of the whole thing.
Overall, pretty good. Slightly bizarre, and to say it’s a book about the fire bombing of Dresden feels like a misrepresentation. The bombing was only explicitly talked about towards the end of the book, and even then it felt like a book much more about the experience of ptsd than Dresden itself.
Good read, wouldn’t revisit.
The way time was approached was really interesting and I think it does a pretty good job representing ptsd and dissociation. You could never quite tell where and when Billie Pilgrim actually was and that was really the coolest part of the whole thing.
Overall, pretty good. Slightly bizarre, and to say it’s a book about the fire bombing of Dresden feels like a misrepresentation. The bombing was only explicitly talked about towards the end of the book, and even then it felt like a book much more about the experience of ptsd than Dresden itself.
Good read, wouldn’t revisit.