Slaughterhouse 5

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  Peculiar. Is it a war book, as I read elsewhere? Or rather science-fiction? Or maybe both, and none?
  I enjoyed it: charming, deep, and inspired.

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  Ficie said on Sep 19, 2009 | Add your feedback

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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 30, 2007 | Add your feedback

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  Essentially Kurt!
  One of his best!

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  Angel-a said on Jun 11, 2007 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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  Poo-tee-weet?

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  pasquale.falco said on Nov 14, 2011 | Add your feedback

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  Brilliant! The writing, the story, the ideas and phylosophies, and most of all the structure.
  "So it goes".
  [This particular edition was probably scanned from another one, and has several misspelled words... a bit annoying but not a problem for the comprehension.]

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  maCmq said on Aug 27, 2011 | Add your feedback

• A crusade of words, truly telegraphic and schizophrenic, yet with an incredible flow. A constructed reality which reminded me of Hemmingway and Kafka, probably offending all three authors (or at least one). A true work of art. And a great vacation read (should check on The Extraordinary Popular Delu ... (continue)

  A crusade of words, truly telegraphic and schizophrenic, yet with an incredible flow. A constructed reality which reminded me of Hemmingway and Kafka, probably offending all three authors (or at least one). A true work of art. And a great vacation read (should check on The Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay).

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  Jw van Eck said on Aug 21, 2011 about the Unbound edition | Add your feedback

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• Paperback 176 Pages
• Edition: New Ed
• ISBN-10: 0099458438
• ISBN-13: 9780099458432
• Publisher: Vintage
• Pub date: Aug 01, 2003
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