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Slaughterhouse-Five (Cliffs Notes)

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You can read Slaughterhouse Five in a few hours. Nobody needs the Cliffs Notes to this book. Everyone knows Cliffs notes are not used for notes, so all you lazy students, just read the actual book. It's worth your time. Cliffs Notes don't deserve any stars, and in this case, don't waste your money. The book is incredibly simple, and short. Don't make it meaningless!

You have to accept this Vonnegut-style, or you will be disappointed just by his strange ideas about time-warp, extraterrestrials and his special wit. If you fight through, you will find more than this - it's a short book about a man/child, driven into WWII although neither grown-up nor a real soldier, just to be imprisoned by the germans to work for them. Through several timeshifts he tells us about his life, youth, WWII including the horrendous bombing of Dresden, his later life as an optometrist and ... ohh no - it's short enough that you can read it for yourself. Try it, but don't beat me nor the writer for not matching your special taste in books :-)

Don't know if it's just me, but I couldn't work this book out at all. Sure, I understood it but I couldn't really see what it was getting at. I understand this book is considered a literary classic in the USA so maybe it's because I'm a dumb English guy but, whilst I enjoyed it to a point, I couldn't really relate to it at all.

So, three stars because I'm sure some of you will like it but it wasn't my cup of tea.

I don't think the reviewer from England (and many others for that matter) understood that Billy Pilgrim went insane from the horrors he saw, and there were no aliens or time warps. It is simply a scatalogical novel, much live Pulp Fiction was a scatological movie. And much like Pulp Fiction, the story in Slaughterhouse Five was told this way to leave the biggest impact on the reader as possible. And it does.

In this sci-fi novel Vonnegut thrills the reader with fantastic and wonderful tales of society. This book tells the story of war in a funkified version. Slaughterhouse Five is the emitome of the process of funkification. In this book there are hidden messages to Inseo Choi that enrich the experience of the reader.