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Slaughterhouse-Five
By : by Kurt Vonnegut
ratings : 1,048,690
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Original Title : Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death
ISBN : 0385333846 (ISBN13: 9780385333849)
Edition Language : English
Series : Billy Pilgrim, Kilgore Trout, Eliot Rosewater, Roland Weary, Paul Lazzaro...more, Edgar Derby, Robert Pilgrim, Valencia Merble, Barbara Pilgrim, Howard W. Campbell Jr., Montana Wildhack, Bertam Copeland Rumfoord...less
Paperback, 275 pages
Published January 12th 1999 by Dial Press (first published 1969)
Characters : Dresden, 1945 (Germany) Tralfamadore Ilium (United States) …more Ardennes, 1944 (Belgium) …less
Setting : Hugo Award Nominee for Best SF Novel (1970), Nebula Award Nominee for Best Novel (1969), National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (1970), Chicago Publishers' Award (1970)
Description : Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time, Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world's great antiwar books. 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.
Literary Awards : Hugo Award Nominee for Best SF Novel (1970), Nebula Award Nominee for Best Novel (1969), National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (1970), Chicago Publishers' Award (1970)
REVIEWS :There are some terrible reviews of SH5 floating around Goodreads, but one particularly awful sentiment is that Slaughterhouse-Five isn't anti-war.This is usually based on the following quote. "It had to be done," Rumfoord told Billy, speaking of the destruction of Dresden."I know," said Billy."That's war.""I know. I'm not complaining""It must have been hell on the ground.""It was," said Billy Pilgrim."Pity the men who had to do it.""I do.""You must have had mixed feelings, there on the ground." I miss Kurt Vonnegut.He hasn't been gone all that long. Of course he isn't gone, yet he is gone. He has always been alive and he will always be dead. So it goes.Slaughterhouse-five is next to impossible to explain, let alone review, but here I am. And here I go.What is it about?It's about war.It's about love and hate.It's about post traumatic stress. It's about sanity and insanity.It's about aliens (not the illegal kind, the spacey kind).It's about life.It's about death.so it goes."That's one I have to admit to being somewhat baffled by the acclaim Slaughterhouse-5 has received over the years. Sure, the story is interesting. It has a fascinating and mostly successful blend of tragedy and comic relief. And yes, I guess the fractured structure and time-travelling element must have been quite novel and original back in the day. But that doesn't excuse the book's flaws, of which there are a great many in my (seemingly unconventional) opinion. Take, for instance, Vonnegut's endless Every so often you read a book, a book that takes everything you thought created an excellent novel and tears it to pieces; it then sets it on fire and throws it out the window in a display of pure individual brilliance. That is how I felt when I read this jumbled and absurd, yet fantastic, novel.The book has no structure or at the very least a perceivable one: it’s all over the place. But, it works so well. It cements the book’s message and purpose underlining its meaning. Indeed, this book is I read this book first in 1999 when my grandfather passed away. It was a bit of a coincidence as his funeral occurred between a Primate Anatomy exam and a paper for my Experimental Fiction class on Slaughterhouse Five. I was frantically trying to remember the names of all kinds of bones when I picked this up in the other hand and tried to wrap my head around it.Basically, Vonnegut has written the only Tralfamadorian novel I can think of. These beings, most undoubtedly inspired in Billy Pilgrim's A fun visit with cantankerous old Uncle Kurt. Vonnegut is on a short list of my favorite authors and this is perhaps his most famous work. Not his best, but most recognizable. Billy Pilgrim is also one of his best characters. (Kilgore Trout is his best).I liked it as I like everything I have read of him. The recurring themes and characters, use of repetition for emphasis and comic relief, his irreverence and postmodern lack of sensitivity shine bright as ever here. Vonnegut can be funny and grim I finally read Vonnegut. I finally read a war novel. And after a long time I finally read something with so many GR ratings and a decent number of reviews which is precisely the reason I have nothing much to add to the already expressed views here. So I urge you to indulge me to state a personal anecdote. Thank You.My Grandfather was a POW during Indo-China war and remained in confinement for some six months. By the time I got to know about it I had already watched too many movies and crammed 375. Slaughterhouse-Five = The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death, Kurt VonnegutSlaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death (1969) is a science fiction-infused anti-war novel by Kurt Vonnegut about the World War II experiences and journeys through time of Billy Pilgrim, from his time as an American soldier and chaplain's assistant, to postwar and early years. It is generally recognized as Vonnegut's most influential and popular work. A central event is “All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.” Kurt Vonnegut ~~ SLAUGHTERHOUSE -- FIVEMy junior year of college, I had a roommate, Don, his nickname was Har Don, which he hated; Har Don loved Kurt Vonnegut ~~ no, he worshipped Kurt Vonnegut. It’s ironic since everything Don believed in was the antithesis of what Vonnegut stood for. Don insisted I read Vonnegut's SLAPSTICK. He told me it was the greatest novel ever written. I did, and it isn't. He insisted I was My Vonnegut advice is to do the run of his best work in sequence: Mother Nigh; Cat's Cradle; God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater; and then Slaughterhouse. I’ve got a lot of catching up (and re-reading) to do with Mr Vonnegut’s works. This book is an absolute masterpiece and it makes it clear in every single sentence. I think it is best to go into it without knowing too much about the plot. You just got to take it as it comes, so to say.Before reading, I was worried that I might have trouble with the writing style. English isn't my first language and the older a book is, the more trouble I seem to have with the writing (because of obsolete words, unusual sentence structures, ect.). However, my worry was totally for nothing in Listen:This reviewer is stuck in time. He is unable to escape the narrow confines of the invisible, intangible machinery mercilessly directing his life from a beginning towards an end. The walls surrounding him are dotted with windows looking out on darkened memories and foggy expectations, easing the sense of claustrophobia but offering no way out. The ceiling is crushing down on this man while he paces frantically through other people's lives and memories in hopes of shaping his own and There are only a few books that I ever really try to revisit. Sherlock Holmes and his stories are one. Some Shakespeare. And Slaughterhouse-Five. I have read this book every year since my first reading almost ten years ago. I read it as an undergraduate; I read it as a graduate student. I've written three or four papers about it. And, yes, I have tried to pawn this book off on as many people as I could over the years. You see, this book does something to me whenever I read it. It takes me.
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