#3 Slaughterhouse 5 Review

Will & Kris review Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut. Please leave your thoughts on the book, we love to hear what you have to say and theres a lot to say about this book we couldn't fit in. Also rate, comment, subscribe and leave videos if you can =]

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[onlysinister]

hey this has nothing to do with the book but are you guys from Newcastle???

[BookClubBleu]

@onlysinister lol nope we're near the south coast

[AhYaOk]

fantastic book. other short ones to consider are doors of perception by huxley, and shelley's frankenstein.

[BookClubBleu]

@AhYaOk good suggestions, both books we've been meaning to read

[BookClubBleu]

oops i used my personal account but i am the one who replies to comments and generally runs the channel

[sharpsuitedmod]

Hi, just letting you know the one responding is Will (in the black shirt) I would like to think we've gotten better in terms of clarity but we still like to keep the video spontaneous and chatty, although we talk about what we want to include it's easy to forget a key point and me and Kris often end up kicking ourselves afterwards, but we are going to try to make our videos more thorough. Thanks for the second chance though! For detail you might appreciate our metamorphosis video, thanks =]

[Elric33239]

Understood. I'll make it a point of viewing your later reviews to see how they've evolved since this one. Of course my comments were directed at the two young men in this video, not the ones who are responding to my response. If I had more space, I would have suggested that they write their reviews before they videotape them so that they would be more structured and less scattered and "hazy." Otherwise, thanks for reassuring an old cuss that there are young people out there who still read books!

[BookClubBleu]

Hi,

thanks for your feedback, in response i would say firstly... this was our first review (our first two videos being introductions to our channel and the book - which may have more of the detail of the plot though i cant remember), and in one take so we were admittedly quite hazy on some important details of the book. secondly i wholeheartedly agree about the writers block comment but we did also say how it was hard to approach a topic as large and emotionally involving as the bombings

[Elric33239]

Interesting review in that you don't get a solid idea of what the story is about so much as how these young men feel about it. Vonnegut has stated that the difficulty in writing this book wasn't due to writer's block so much as The Firebombing of Dresden was too painful for him to write about as a straight novel, so he used SF elements (time travel, non-linear time and the alien abduction) the way Shakespeare used clowns in his tragic play - as a pleasant distraction from the painful moments.