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lucyselim's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
I spent most of the book assuming that it was the thoughts and ramblings of Billy's brain after his 'death'. The Tralfamadorian's philosophy that you don't really die made me think that perhaps after dying on earth you simply relive your life over and over in a time-travelling way. But then towards the end I felt the book hinting that this was really all in Billy's imagination. Either way, it doesn't really matter.
I do wish there had been more written about Billy's time on Tralfamadore and with Montana though.
Overall, this was definitely an interesting and thought provoking book that I think will always sit a little funny with me, but it was good for me to read outside of my comfort zone.
So it goes.
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Violence, Antisemitism, War, and Injury/Injury detail
megb64's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.25
Graphic: Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Grief, War, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Vomit, and Pregnancy
sarareadingpiles's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Mass/school shootings, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail
katsusho_'s review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, and Antisemitism
cptnstphy's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.25
I found the main character Billy’s experience of time and space very interesting and worth contemplating, even if just to pull ourselves out of our always-linear understanding of time. I also enjoy some fantasy and worldbuilding, so his recollections of the alien planet were creative and well-received.
I did also appreciate the moral undercurrent to things that he says that are expressed as casual but read as subtly poignant.
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Genocide, Antisemitism, and War
Moderate: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Pregnancy
taleofabibliophile's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.25
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Mental illness, Torture, Violence, Kidnapping, and War
Moderate: Ableism, Bullying, Gore, Racial slurs, Racism, Blood, Antisemitism, and Alcohol
Minor: Animal death, Child death, Infidelity, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicide, Excrement, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and Murder
ambercchen's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Grief, War, and Injury/Injury detail
allidone's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.5
Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Genocide, Gun violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, Violence, Excrement, Medical trauma, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , War, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Homophobia, Sexism, Sexual content, and Mass/school shootings
Minor: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Racial slurs, Transphobia, and Murder
dejaghoul's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
5.0
The formation flew backwards over a German city that was in flames. The bombers opened their bomb bay doors, exerted a miraculous magnetism which shrunk the fires, gathered them into cylindrical steel containers, and lifted the containers into the bellies of the planes. The containers were stored neatly in racks. The Germans below had miraculous devices of their own, which were long steel tubes. They used them to suck more fragments from the crewmen and planes. But there were still a few wounded Americans though and some of the bombers were in bad repair. Over France though, German fighters came up again, made everything and everybody as good as new.
When the bombers got back to their base, the steel cylinders were taken from the racks and shipped back to the United States of America, where factories were operating night and day, dismantling the cylinders, separating the dangerous contents into minerals. Touchingly, it was mainly women who did this work. The minerals were then shipped to specialists in remote areas. It was their business to put them into the ground, to hide them cleverly, so they would never hurt anybody ever again.
The American fliers turned in their uniforms, became high school kids. And Hitler turned into a baby, Billy Pilgrim supposed. That wasn’t in the movie. Billy was extrapolating. Everybody turned into a baby, and all of humanity, without exception, conspired biologically to produce two perfect people named Adam and Eve, he supposed.”
Graphic: War
Moderate: Alcoholism, Gun violence, and Mental illness
2busyreading's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, and War
Moderate: Death and Sexual content
Minor: Mental illness and Racism