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Summary: SH5
Review: This book is way too confusing and jumps around too much! I don't get it and I can't believe that it was on the school reading list! Its by far one of the worst books I have ever read!!!
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Review: Vonnegut at the top of his form, which is a fresh style compared to most of the tired writers of this century.
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Summary: Questionable content for teens
Review: This book was required reading for my teen. Although the book may have literary merit I found references to bestiality, torture and gore inappropriate for a required book.
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Summary: Everybody dies. So it goes¿
Review: The book is first of all an easy read and one could easily finish this novel in less than week. The prose is uncomplicated but the timeline jumps back and forth through different perios in Billy Pilgrim's life. One widespread factor that remains throughout the book is that everyone dies. "So it goes." The way in which I interpreted the book is that individuals are swept up in the entire global/political state of affairs and many of us unfortunately do not have a choice about where our lives will lead us. It's not that there isn't any free will, but rather we are all subject to the circumstances around us and we must deal with that. The only way we can exist is in the present - the past and future are out of our grasps. This limiting way of looking at life is explained to Billy by some affable aliens from the planet Tralfamadore. He swept up into their way of thinking when he was in Europe fighting the Germans in WWII. He witnesses the overall cruelty of humans toward other humans and is surprisingly indifferent toward the destruction because it is out of his hands. So it goes... Read the book with an open mind and enjoy yourself while you read it.
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Summary: his masterpiece?
Review: seen as a anti-war novel it does, in that sense, a great deal for american lit and the novel but otherwise it is lacking. only through the aforementioned lense can one view this as a perinnial novel. go to other works by the master to be astounded.
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Summary: So it goes...
Review: Not only is this gem of a novel a good introduction to Vonnegut, it is, as well, a great way to get back into the habit of reading again. This book is an effortless read. The sentences fall of the page as meat from the spare rib (when they're cooked just right). Vonnegut's genious lies in his apparent simplicity, yet without realizing it, he invigorates your intellect. It is fair to dub Slaughterhouse Five an "anti-war" novel, but unfair to pigeonhole-it as such. Progressive in its structure and style, it is a refreshing journey with no beginning and no end; fragmented and focused at the same time. Vonnegut is a master humorist with tremendous style, not depending on boring explanations or lofty prose but simply throwing beautiful, original, yet simple phrases and sentences at us and relying on his acute sarcasm. Fans of writers from Bradbury to Heller to John Irving will love Slaughterhouse Five.
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Summary: Staggering - Beautiful and Ugly
Review: When I finished the book on the Lexington Avenue Subway line while commuting home from work I nearly cried. This ranks as one of the best books I ever read (100 Years of Solitude, Razor's Edge, Power & Glory). Vonnegut smacks the reader upside the head with the horrors of war while you're laughing and crying with Billy Pilgrim, one of the saddest characters in 20th Century literature.
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Summary: Great book
Review: I just wanted to take some time out of my day to tell all the prospective readers out there that Slaughter-House Five is a really good book to read. It has a serious meaning to it and a certain humor to keep it a fun book. One of my all-time favorites!
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Summary: Vonnegut Virgin
Review: This was a fun indoctrination to Vonnegut's work. Much to think about in this one: the meaning behind "So it goes," whether Billy Pilgrim is sane or insane, and how literal was the story in its idea of Billy's time travelling? The movie changes some parts, and leaves some other good points out, but both are worth checking out to complement each other. Great novel about a forgotten event in the history of World War II.
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Summary: Slaughterhouse Five
Review: While most people tend to categorize this book as sci-fi with a purpose, I think it should be lended the legitimacy it deserves. Science-fiction carries a connotation of being less than top-notch, but more importantly, this book has few of the charateristics of a sci-fi novel. The main character, Billy Pilgrim, while an advid proponet of the Jim Marr's-type "Aliens Are Among Us" routine, is merely dabbling in the device used to tell the story. These mysterious and all-knowing Tralfamadorians scatter Billy through his life in a very vivid staccato space jump. However, the importance is not these creatures, but the metaphor. These aliens are merely the device that makes Billy see--for the first time--the insanity of this so-called life of ours. While the novel has these conspicuous sci-fi tendencies, the rest of the book is more a story of very human encounters with everyday run-of-the-mill psychopaths, perverts, obese better-halfs, et cetera. And while the moral lesson is a heavy one, this is one of the most entertaining anit-war books ever written. Certainly one of the best books of the second half of the 20th century.
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