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Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut

ISBN: 9780099458432
Release Date: 07 Aug 2003
Average rating: (read by 483 members)

Categories: Modern fiction

One of Vonnegut's most well-known novels, this book was also made into a film. It concerns Billy Pilgrim, a man with the ability to travel in time, and his adventures as a result of this.

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	rodangelo Full Review
	Rated it 1 months ago

I think my trouble here is that I expected something very different from what I got. This book was recommended to me years ago by a teacher after I read and loved Catch 22. I expected something similar, which it was at first, but didn't know anything...

	kristie13
	Rated it 1 months ago

One of Vonnegut's best. His blunt writing style really keeps you reading.

	Icklemissmosh Full Review
	Rated it 3 months ago

this novel is famous for its depictions of the dresden bombings in ww2 and is clearly anti-war, the repetition of the phrase "so it goes" becomes a mantra showing the futility of war and perhaps all human experience. The structure is somewhat...

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