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Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback, 1999, Chelsea House Publishers) 4 stars

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time, …

Review of 'Slaughterhouse-Five' on 'Goodreads'

1 star

The first book in my recent reading that I had no desire to finish (and didn't). It reads like a bad NaNoWriMo.

Slaughterhouse Five is about WW II soldier Billy Pilgrim, who becomes "displaced in time" and starts time traveling and meets with aliens. I couldn't decide if that was supposed to be actually happening or if the man was driven insane, and I found myself not caring. The time frame frequently jumps between Billy as an old man and Billy during the war, making it hard to keep track of anything that was going on.

Any attempts at humor or cleverness (such as the repetition of "so it goes") were completely lost on me; I guess I must not "get" the book.