Slaughterhouse-Five

[mtr1979]

Finished listening to this book a couple of days ago on audible and apparently people say it is a classic. I knew nothing of this book before I downloaded it and I haven't read any explanations about it since I finished.

I can't say I would recommend this book. The whole book is a series of flashforwards and flashbacks. With a few numbers of people killed in the bombing of Dresden thrown in the mix. I don't get it perhaps someone can explain it to me?

[CaptUSA]

It's a meh. People like Vonnegut's style. Not my cup of tea.

I think people like it because it came out in 1969 at the height of anti-war protests. And it treated war massacre with a sort of nonchalant humor. So it goes.

[pcosmar]

I don't get it perhaps someone can explain it to me?

It is the writing of a Survivor of the Dresden Firebombing.

A fictional recreation of real events..

Slaughterhouse-Five is still being banned in schools. for what that is worth.

[mtr1979]

It is the writing of a Survivor of the Dresden Firebombing.

A fictional recreation of real events..

Slaughterhouse-Five is still being banned in schools. for what that is worth.

Gee I wonder why it is banned? It might have something to do with the sexually explicit content. While I think it is mild by today's standards. It doesn't matter what I think.

[pcosmar]

Gee I wonder why it is banned? It might have something to do with the sexually explicit content. While I think it is mild by today's standards. It doesn't matter what I think.

F bombs and Death as commonplace. So it goes.

Might also have to do with the horrors the Author survived to write about.