Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


The thought came to me many times as I was reading that I am too literal for Vonnegut's writing. I wish we had read this in school and I'd had a teacher telling me what everything means, how to think about it, and what to take from Slaughterhouse. What I did decide is the time travel parts were maybe meant to show us earthlings that while we have free will on our planet, there are some things that are inevitable and unavoidable. War and its destructiveness is one of those things. Death is another of those things. Poor Billy Pilgrim's life was so disrupted by both, and yet he remained like little boy the whole time. So it goes.
I cannot believe Dresden happened, but what an interesting way to read about it- in a way that would not, because he could not, describe the horrific experience in a play by play way. Books like this are challenging for me.

I don't know if I have ever read anything by Kurt Vonnegut before this, but I think now I will have to read more..




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