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Slaughterhouse-five
Registered by cantreadenuff of Woodbine, Maryland USA on 12/23/2004
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
1 journaler for this copy...
Almost bought this new last summer, but happened to find a copy at the library's sale shelf--must be fate!
I liked this book on the excesses of WWII a lot. I admire the economy of words that still gets a message across strongly, and Vonnegut does it here! My book group decided to read this in his memory, and luckily I had it on my shelf. I read it on a business trip and once again learned I need to pack more reading--it went very quickly. I had a smidge of trouble with Vonnegut starting off as narrator and then switching to Billy Pilgrim as protagonist, but I got over it.
I just had to look up Kilgore Trout. I knew I had heard that name ... and it turns out my brother-in-law worked at a clothing store named after the famous, but fictitious, character. I also happened to be reading this on a Lufthansa flight, eerie because Vonnegut complained about Lufthansa. And so it goes.
Some of my favorite passages:
On the POW boxcars: "Human beings in there took turns standing or lying down. The legs of those who stood were like fence posts driven into a warm, squirming, farting, sighing earth. The queer earth was a mosaic of sleepers who nestled like spoons."
Post-war, mother visits him in hospital: "She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarassed and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and Billy really didn't like life at all." (This leaves me speechless).
"Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt."
I'm up for reading more Vonnegut. Enjoy!
I just had to look up Kilgore Trout. I knew I had heard that name ... and it turns out my brother-in-law worked at a clothing store named after the famous, but fictitious, character. I also happened to be reading this on a Lufthansa flight, eerie because Vonnegut complained about Lufthansa. And so it goes.
Some of my favorite passages:
On the POW boxcars: "Human beings in there took turns standing or lying down. The legs of those who stood were like fence posts driven into a warm, squirming, farting, sighing earth. The queer earth was a mosaic of sleepers who nestled like spoons."
Post-war, mother visits him in hospital: "She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarassed and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and Billy really didn't like life at all." (This leaves me speechless).
"Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt."
I'm up for reading more Vonnegut. Enjoy!
Journal Entry 3 by cantreadenuff at Daedalus Books in Columbia, Maryland USA on Friday, December 31, 2010
Left in box by front door. Please enjoy and journal this book! Happy 2011!!
