Slaughterhouse-Five in Never too Late to Read Classics

Jul 13, 2012 Carrie rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: science-fiction, classics, time-travel, aliens, dance-party, perksofbeingabookworm-rec-swap, kurt-vonnegut, war, rlftci

Slaughterhouse-Five is a fantastic book. Dark, funny, intelligent, sad. Billy Pilgrim, the main character in this book is an American POW. We get to experience is life, some times a few times over as he travels through time and his life in the Tralfamadorians zoo.

This has got me thinking, did Billy really time travel and were there really aliens. Perhaps these are the memories of a man who had survived Dresden. Perhaps, something snapped at some point, a result of the war, and as he is just rem ...more

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Mar 03, 2008 Laura rated it it was amazing

Shelves: banned-books, american-fiction, science-fiction, fiction-20th-century

This is the story of Billy Pilgrim, a man who becomes unstuck in time after he is abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore.

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Jul 02, 2014 Tom Britz rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

This is clearly the best Vonnegut I have read. In typical Vonnegut fashion he playfully leads the reader over a surrealistic landscape dropping little crumbs of wisdom for you to follow. The major theme of this work is its anti war stance. The novel states that war is a necessity of life just as death is, so it goes. However death is not the final product. Life is ongoing and it loops and turns back upon itself all the time. As I read this 1969 novel, written during America's anti war movement, ...more

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Mar 07, 2008 Becca rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction

I can't imagine experiencing something like this - but Vonnegut has a way of bringing it to life. He's able to depict these awful scenes, but use humour at just the right moment and in just the right way to keep things from getting too heavy.

This was my first Vonnegut book, and definitely not my last.

So it goes. ...more

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