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Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
This book stuck with me so much, during and after reading, that I think I devoted several pages of my diary to talking about it. I had intended to write about a trip I went on with some friends and just kept coming back to Slaughterhouse-Five instead.
I don't have anything very insightful or interesting to write about this book. Other people can explain the anti-war themes much better than I can. Go look at their smarter, more in-depth reviews.
One thing I will say is that I did not like Billy Pilgrim. But I think this was on purpose. Throughout the book Billy doesn't like, or even really care about, his wife who clearly adores him. Which made me so sad. But, then again, Billy goes through most of his life not making choices or becoming better. Billy is terrible to other people and himself, whether due to his experiences in the war, on Trafalgar, or maybe that's how he was born, who knows. But I believe the cowardly, sometimes unintentionally cruel main character works really well to illustrate what Vonnegut is trying to get at here (at least in my interpretation). More Vonnegut is in my future, I want to read Mother Night next.
I don't have anything very insightful or interesting to write about this book. Other people can explain the anti-war themes much better than I can. Go look at their smarter, more in-depth reviews.
One thing I will say is that I did not like Billy Pilgrim. But I think this was on purpose. Throughout the book Billy doesn't like, or even really care about, his wife who clearly adores him. Which made me so sad. But, then again, Billy goes through most of his life not making choices or becoming better. Billy is terrible to other people and himself, whether due to his experiences in the war, on Trafalgar, or maybe that's how he was born, who knows. But I believe the cowardly, sometimes unintentionally cruel main character works really well to illustrate what Vonnegut is trying to get at here (at least in my interpretation). More Vonnegut is in my future, I want to read Mother Night next.