A review by noahsterba
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

5.0

Its gotta be so frusurating to be a high school english teacher. you teach books like this to little goblins like myself when i was in 10th grade and me and no one else retains a thing. later tonight i am going back time to slap my 16 year old self in the erection and tell him to stop waiting for porn to download on napster and pay some damned attention to this book. Its chalk full of dark humor, strange wisdom, alien abductions, time travel, and brutal war atrocities. but what shines through it all is a deeply humanitarian heart. The main hunk of the book is Billy Pilgrim as a POW in WW2 leading up to his survival of the Dresden bombing. knowing that these were Vonnegut's actual experiences makes the story all the more heart wrenching. to cram so much human pain and struggle and weirdness and glory and goofiness into 200 pages blows my mind. if not in this one, its gotta be one of the best books out there in some universe.