Slaughterhouse 5
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'An extraordinary success. A book to read and reread. He is a true artist' New York Times Book Review
Billy Pilgrim - hapless barber's assistant, successful optometrist, alien abductee, senile widower and soldier - has become unstuck in time. Hiding in the basement of a slaughterhouse in Dresden, with the city and its inhabitants burning above him, he finds himself a survivor of one of the most deadly and destructive battles of the Second World War. But when, exactly? How did he get here? And how does he get out?
Travel through time and space on the shoulders of Vonnegut himself. This is a book about war. Listen to what he has to say: it is of the utmost urgency.
'The great, urgent, passionate American writer of our century, who offers us a model of the kind of compassionate thinking that might yet save us from ourselves.' George Saunders
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EVERYTHING WAS BEAUTIFUL AND NOTHING HURT
In my opinion true anti war stories are very rare but slaughterhouse five is one without a doubt. I didn’t know what to expect of this, essentially going in blind, and I think that is the best way to read it. In the beginning I kept thinking “what a fitting time to read this” but now I think it always has been and always will be a fitting time in history to read this. This may have been the first Vonnegut I’ve ever read but it’s surely not the last.
Description
'An extraordinary success. A book to read and reread. He is a true artist' New York Times Book Review
Billy Pilgrim - hapless barber's assistant, successful optometrist, alien abductee, senile widower and soldier - has become unstuck in time. Hiding in the basement of a slaughterhouse in Dresden, with the city and its inhabitants burning above him, he finds himself a survivor of one of the most deadly and destructive battles of the Second World War. But when, exactly? How did he get here? And how does he get out?
Travel through time and space on the shoulders of Vonnegut himself. This is a book about war. Listen to what he has to say: it is of the utmost urgency.
'The great, urgent, passionate American writer of our century, who offers us a model of the kind of compassionate thinking that might yet save us from ourselves.' George Saunders
Book Information
Posts
EVERYTHING WAS BEAUTIFUL AND NOTHING HURT
In my opinion true anti war stories are very rare but slaughterhouse five is one without a doubt. I didn’t know what to expect of this, essentially going in blind, and I think that is the best way to read it. In the beginning I kept thinking “what a fitting time to read this” but now I think it always has been and always will be a fitting time in history to read this. This may have been the first Vonnegut I’ve ever read but it’s surely not the last.