Slaughterhouse-Five
February 20, 2008
Unstuck in time, Billy Pilgrim, Vonnegut’s shattered survivor of the Dresden bombing, relives his life over and over again under the gaze of aliens; he comes at last to some understanding of the human comedy. The basis of George Roy’s great 1972 film and
Customer Review: Story of a pilgrimage
SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE is an excellent anti-war story. Kurt Vonnegut uses excellent symbolism. Billy Pilgrim, the principal character, is affected in his ongoing life on earth, or pilgrimage, by the horror of the bombing of Dresden, Germany. The memories are hounding and pursuing him throughout the rest of his life. Vonnegut should be commended for doing an excellent job in showing how one traumatic experience can naver be erased from a person’s mind. It countinues to literally persecute someone. Vonnegut is one author who should have received the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Customer Review: Describing Vonnegut is impossible. Much like his message on war. Peet-o-weet.
Vonnegut truly is a gifted man. Every word in this book is carefully placed and fitted perfectly. Some of the lines in this book will forever be remembered. Billy Pilgrim is someone I came to know and love. Billy Pilgrim has become unhinged in time. Peet-o-weet. So it goes. Hello. Goodbye. Hello. Goodbye.
Billy Pilgrims adventures.. from WW2 to the the alien planet of the Tras.. is carefully placed in different sequences to make you unable to put this book down. I finished this book in one day. I couldn’t believe how well it flowed.
The message is clear as well. Nothing can be said of war. War is something that doesn’t make sense. Peet-o-weet. Buy from here…
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