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| Slaughterhouse-Five | 
 enlarge | Author: Kurt Vonnegut
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (707 reviews)
Sales Rank: 706
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.3 x 0.8
ISBN: 0385333846
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780385333849
ASIN: 0385333846
Publication Date: January 12, 1999
Release Date: January 12, 1999
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 Interesting November 28, 1997
The story of Billy Pilgrim as he views his life through a variety of time perspectives. He relives his terrible experiences in World War II and the Dresden firebombing. These experiences are contrasted with those of a idealistic alien race where there is peace. The writing style was unusual but engrossing.
 The eternal book August 10, 1997
As the Tralfamdorians, the omniscient space creatures who like to look at humans in cages, put it we never die, we live on forever in our moments. Certainly the Tralfamdorians were speaking of Slaughterhuse, which is made up entirely of those moments. This masterpiece which satarizes just about every element of human life truly magnifies Vonnegut's power. However bleak and disparing the messages are, this book should be read by every creature earth and beyond
Vonnegut shows us all how to come unstuck in time July 23, 1997
I read Slaughterhouse Five last week, a 16th birthday presentfrom my parents. With it's amazing and disjointed journeythrough one man's simple life, Vonnegut illustrates how messy yet tied together all our lives are. Instead of a simple flashback that most anyone could use to give a character's backround, Vonnegut brings the readers along with Billy Pilgrim and we all come unstuck, now able to explore with limitless hind and foresight a full but not entirely perfect life. Anyone who reads this novel will interprete something different. The Tralfamadorian outlook on life and death affected me the most, while my friend appreciated more the historic backround of the once beautiful then ruined Dresden. Vonnegut helps us understand the futility of war and the sad, but not tragic side of death. WWII was truly a Children's Crusade. So it goes.
Easily one of the most important books of this century July 3, 1997
What can one say about "Slaughterhouse 5" that hasn't already been analyzed to death before? Suffice to say, there is a reason this book is seen as a classic: its portrayal of the coldness of war, its time-warping style, Vonnegut's dark humor at an all-time cutting edge... If you have not been forced to read this book in a class, force yourself. If Vonnegut is remembered for one masterpiece, this will be it
An Excellently Written Book That Does It's Job May 19, 1997
I just finished this book (For the second time) and I can not say enough about it! The total satire that pervaded every idea we cherish in America cannot help but to force you to take a step back and look at us and how we live. His casualness with attrocity, the comparisions between the chaos of World War II and the order of the Tralmafadoran's, the writings of Kilgore Trout... I cannot even begin to describe the complexities and though provoking ideas this book brought out in me! A must have
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