Slaughterhouse-Five Or The Children's Crusade: A Duty Dance With Death

from KymmAC

One of my favorite books by one of my favorite authors. I bought it in Madrid and read it in September of 1983, then again in La Floresta in October of 1997, and now for the November #1book140 twitter bookclub. Now that I'm older, I paid more attention to the time travelling and the types of meta...

from SamSattler

I first read Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five as a very young man. At the time, I was an avid fan of science fiction, especially those books featuring time travel, and that is what drew me to Slaughterhouse-Five. As a science fiction novel, I thought it was pretty good, especially considering ...

from gillis.sarah

This is such a great book. It's very much a Vonnegut book, though, so if you don't like his writing or his subject matter, you probably won't like this book. It's an awesome anti-war book, with a protagonist named Billy Pilgrim who becomes 'unstuck in time', switching back and forth from his time...

from agnesmack

In honor of Banned Books week, I read Slaughterhouse-Five for the third time. I was in high school the first time I read it, and I really didn't care for it. I found it confusing and much of the anti-war message was lost on me. I read it a second time about 6 years ago, and while I did enjoy it m...

from thanbini

This book was not what I expected. I usually have a general idea of the subject beforehand and I thought I knew, but I was wrong. It was a good book though. So it goes.