catbag 's review for:

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

3.0

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it happened to me. the slaughterhouse five thing happened to me. where you read the book and it moves you while you're reading and then it COMPLETELY abandons your memory as soon as you're done with it. how does it do it i would like to know
anyway it's giving man with ptsd does man with ptsd things
and i loved the fuckery with time and space within the narration bc it's being written by a man who never got over what happened, so he carried it with him from every moment forward

“Is it an anti-war book?”
“Yes,” I said. “I guess.”
“You know what I say to people when I hear they’re writing anti-war books?”
“No. What do you say, Harrison Starr?”
“I say, ‘Why don’t you write an anti-glacier book instead?’”
What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers.