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Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback, Dell Publishing Co.) 4 stars

Slaughterhouse-Five, also known as The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death is a science fiction …

Fine, I read it. It was the first time. It isn't any good, except for a couple of clever pages and the basic affirmation that war, even "good" war, is repugnant. The more a text increases its literary pretensions the less tolerance I have for its chauvinisms. Put this one in the round file next to Catcher in the Rye. I guess you can keep Catch-22? I don't know, because I read it 25 years ago and I'm not going back.