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Summary: Incomparable
Review: The first book by Vonnegut I read, and definitely not my last! Vonnegut demonstrates amazing wit and genius with his imaginative, hilarious account of Billy Pilgrim's screwed-up life. Beneath the dark humor and unbelievable ideas, lies a solemn, sincere anti-war message that should be remembered by all.
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Summary: From Trafalmadore with Love.
Review: Another extremely funny anti-war novel on the lines of Catch 22, but not quite as good. Billy Pilgrim driven mad by his experiences of war travels in time and between worlds. This book wouid have had a greater impact had Vonnegut described in more detail the horrors of the Dresden bombing, which he witnessed first hand.
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Summary: Better than ever.
Review: It was while reading the new WWII novel The Triumph and the Glory that I was reminded of this classic by Kurt Vonnegut. He has inspired succeeding generations of writers with his unique talent and approach to fiction. Slaughterhouse-Five touches the readers emotions in many ways, directly, indirectly, with black humor, with pathos, with despair, with defiance, well, you get the idea. What a versatile writer this man has proven to be, he is a treasure.
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Summary: a look at a disturbed mind
Review: Slaughter-House 5 has gotten accolades over the years not for being a classically written essay on the trials of war, but instead for being something COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. Laced with sarcasm, irony, parody, metaphor, analogy, and satire, SH-5 explores a mind gone mad due to the horrors witnessed during the tragic bombings at Dresden.Vonnegut manages to craft a classic book that is dark without being overtyly evil, depressing without being heavy-handed, and funny without being comical. Unlike war books such as 'Johnny Got His Gun,' for instance, SH-5 deals with the horror of war almost oddhandedly, making the mental carnage of death all the more surreal. Heartily recomended
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Summary: Vonnegut at his best!
Review: Vonnegut is definately a wonderful latter-day Satarist! This book changed my views on war and its objectives. It does go beyond that though, to the core of humanity and the world we live in. (Excellent movie as well, it has the same title.)
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Summary: Small minds won't like this book
Review: People who read books only so they can listlessly write high school or college papers which receive mediocre grades don't understand great books and authors like Vonnegut. No doubt, if they don't understand Vonnegut, they WON'T like Richard Brautigan.
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Summary: An amazing and incedibly deep work.
Review: The meanings of this novel are far deeper than "War is bad." Just because a work of litureature contains scenes of horror in war does not mean that that is the only message there. I highly reccomend this novel and any other Vonnegut work.
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Summary: fresh concepts but boringboringboring
Review: Maybe its the concept of predestination or Vonneguts use of black humor thats got the critics heads turning, but when you want to just READ an enjoyable book, this just doesnt come close. It's not a horribly BAD book, but unless you're reading it for english class or something, I suggest you pass
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Summary: Just proud to serve up another '*****'...
Review: Thank goodness for Kurt Vonnegut, who discovered that run-on sentences are much easier to read than run-on paragraphs, and run-on chapters, and unfortunately, those who would write run-on volumes. After reading Hocus-Pocus, I've discovered that no matter how great or lowly he presents his main characters, he always uses the same down-to-earth agreeable traits, so one can never get turned off by arrogant, unlifelike characters, either. Nothing he's done before will ever grace the pages of his later works, and all around, he's probably the only modern author I've enjoyed reading (seeing my attention span problem and all).
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Summary: A High School Student's Point of View
Review: I think the book was okay but the introduction of tralfalmadors just creeped me out a little. His discription of certain scenarios in the war were fine but he went off the deepend when he wrote about his friends that no one knows about. Although I am just a high school student and plus I didn't read the whole thing so go figure.
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