Slaughterhouse-Five

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. Download Slaughterhouse-Five – kino-fada.fr 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 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 It was all r...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 th 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 thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough Ignore the awful times and concentrate on the good ones This is how I live my life This is how I get through the day Most days I am successful, some day...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 repeti 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 repetition of the phrase So it goes Wikipedia informs me it crops up 106 times in the book It felt like three hundred times to me About forty pages into the book, I was so fed up with the words So it goes that I felt like hurling the book across the room, something I have not done since trying to read up on French semiotics back in the 1990s I got us...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 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 head by the scattered science fiction plots of Kilgore Trout, experience time as a continuum that is constantly occurringand when they look at time, even though in their version of history, the world is in a constant state of being de...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 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 an anti war novel, which is asserted in part through its random and confusing organisation The story is jumbled and jangled such as the meaning of war It appears pointless to the reader, again alluding to the meaning of war It also suggests that after the war a soldier s life is in ruins and has no clear direction, which can be seen with the sad case of Billy Pilgrim So it goes. Billy Pilgrim is a poor torture...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 en 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 dece...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 forget 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 wal...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 places 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 places Sure there is the time travel, other world element to the novel, but the places it takes me are not physical in nature I can t rightly say that they are spiritual either Basically, the best way I can describe it is where I am taken is if my heart, mind, soul, education, fears, desires, and dreams were all placed in a blender and set to liquefy And then this slosh of material is constructed into whatever semblance of a struc...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 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 irreverenc...No one really introduced me to this work, despite its resonant presence in the literary canon I adore books that reek of marvelous postmodern perfume This is one original, enthralling, always relevant novel Vonnegut is brave and cowardly because he makes the material his own, yet he is but scenery his main character is an Everyman who is sooo affected by the Dresden bombings that he becomes unglued from time Yes war is complete, utter chaos it becomes somethingpowerful than ph No one really introduced me to this work, despite its resonant presence in the literary canon I adore books that reek of marvelous postmodern perfume This is one original, enthralling, always relevant novel Vonnegut is brave and cowardly because he makes the material his own, yet he is but scenery his main character is an Everyman who is sooo a...

• English
• 05 December 2018
Kurt Vonnegut
• Paperback
• 275 pages
• 0385333846
• Kurt Vonnegut
• Slaughterhouse-Five