Kurt Vonnegut -- Slaughterhouse Five: Book Review

[jfitz1431]

Joe Shmo haha

[cinephilefromhell]

If "Catch-22" is your favorite war novel, I recommend "Journey to the End of the Night" by Louis Fedinand Celine. He's French and was a bigot during WW2 but the book is amazing if you separate it from the author himself.

[gnites88]

@cinephilefromhell Nice, thanks for the suggestion. I'll keep it in my for my next trip to the ol' bookstore.

[TTrmetal]

Excellent book.

Excellent shirt.

kudos.

[gnites88]

@TTrmetal haha thanks. Same to you, minus the shirt, as I don't know what you're wearing.

[x69Crunchyx]

great

[kaseyrxrd]

NOOO!! Slaughterhouse-Five beats the pants off of Catch-22! But I respect your opinion...even though it is wrong :)

[TheShearercon]

My favorite author of all time. Not to mention he was a fellow Hoosier, horray for Indiana... right? Maybe not. 

[ZRN959]

1.)Holy Shit, we're wearing the same shirt

2.) This is my favorite book by my favorite author

3.) I'm digging this channel.

[gnites88]

@ZRN959 Haha you're a Target shopper too, huh?

[ZRN959]

@gnites88 Uh-huh

[marissalynnx]

also have no idea how to say anything ever. i just pick a way when i first see (not so much read) the word, and then half way through the book i'll realize i completely made up the pronunciation in my head, and it's really nothing like what the letters spell out... but it's too late for me to change my inner voice's ways

also didn't know about the bombing in dresden

also really enjoyed the book.

[gnites88]

@marissalynnx that's exactly what I do with names too. Exactly. I'm trying to be more aware of paying attention the first time I read it to take my time figuring it out before that happens.

[marissalynnx]

They can see how permanent all the moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them. It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever."it's how you view his life.... not in order, but just all at once

[marissalynnx]

i feel like this sums up the book: "The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist. The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just that way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains, for instance....