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Slaughterhouse-Five : Or the Children's Crusade : A Duty-Dance With Death (Thorndike Press Large Print Perennial Bestsellers Series)Blog this item

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    • Slaughterhouse-Five is one of the world's great antiwar books. An American classic. Centering on the infamous firebombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we fear most.

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  • ― meganzing said on Sep 26, 2008 about the Paperback edition

    • I've read this book three times. The first time was when I was 16. A huge influence on me as a writer and as a human being.

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  • ― Brian Brock said on Aug 30, 2008 about the Paperback edition

    • KV actually was one of the survivors of Dresden. I'm not sure if many of the young readers know this. I would also suggest reading "All Is Quiet On The Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque. It is a novel about the trench warfare of WWI--and was banned by Hitler because it painted the Germans in a ... Continue

      KV actually was one of the survivors of Dresden. I'm not sure if many of the young readers know this. I would also suggest reading "All Is Quiet On The Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque. It is a novel about the trench warfare of WWI--and was banned by Hitler because it painted the Germans in a negative light (in his opinion).

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  • ― darkwalker said on Jan 23, 2008 about the Paperback edition
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    • Still ruminating over this one... Kurt Vonnegut tells us that this is an anti-war novel, but it's not what you would expect. No preaching, no anguish, no weeping, no angry disavowals of war. The main character, Billy Pilgrim, gets unstuck in time and pilgrims through time and space. War as a defined ... Continue

      Still ruminating over this one... Kurt Vonnegut tells us that this is an anti-war novel, but it's not what you would expect. No preaching, no anguish, no weeping, no angry disavowals of war. The main character, Billy Pilgrim, gets unstuck in time and pilgrims through time and space. War as a defined moment in time slowly comes unravelled as Billy's war experience bleeds into and merges with the rest of his life. The absurdity of the ocean of war spills to the farthest shores where it wettens and is absorbed by the sands normal life, which is itself abnormal.

      Not really a novel to find meaning in, at least not the meaning of allegory. The jumps in chrnology can seem not worth it at the beginning, but read on to the end. It's more about the effect. A difficult but worthwhile book.

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  • ― Josh Herr said on Dec 29, 2007 about the Paperback edition
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    • I know this is supposed to be brilliant but it jumped around too much for me. Also it was just to weird.

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  • ― Angie (angiebro) said on Jun 6, 2007 about the Paperback edition
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    • I believe this one sat on the shelf for some time before actually completing it. I believe it was the last Vonnegut book I read.

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  • ― Batona said on Mar 31, 2007 about the Paperback edition

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