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adorará Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se gostará deste livro.  nwhyte | Dec 23, 2009 |  My first Vonnegut novel, but certainly not to be my last I think. I'm not sure how I managed to go just under twenty-five years without reading one of his books, but clearly that was just under twenty-five years wasted, wasn't it? bluedream | Dec 1, 2009 | Magnificent! Profoundly moving and thought provoking! (  ) hemlokgang | Nov 28, 2009 | I was pointed to this book as a science fiction novel dealing with time travel. You can describe it as such, but I would classify it as general fiction, about a man dealing with the trauma of the Dresden bombings as POW and his life afterwards. The writing might confuse some readers, I didn't have any problems. A very impressive book. (  ) divinenanny | Nov 17, 2009 | This is a bizarre story of time travel featuring Billy Pilgrim a German American who serves in the Second world war and is abducted by aliens. This is in part autobiographical as Vonnegut a POW witnessed the fire bombing of Dresden and many of the descriptions are directly from his experiences. I enjoyed the book and parts are very funny if not weird when it shifts to his abduction to Planet Tralfamadore but highlights the effects that war experiences have on memory and a persons state of mind. It works on several levels with great writing and interesting subject matter. This was my introduction to Vonnegut and I will be interested to read more of his work. (Recommendations anyone ??) ( ) jeniwren | Nov 14, 2009 |  sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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Don't let the ease of reading fool you--Vonnegut's isn't a conventional, or simple, novel. He writes, "There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick, and so much the listless playthings of enormous forces. One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters..." Slaughterhouse-Five (taken from the name of the building where the POWs were held) is not only Vonnegut's most powerful book, it is as important as any written since 1945. Like Catch- 22, it fashions the author's experiences in the Second World War into an eloquent and deeply funny plea against butchery in the service of authority. Slaughterhouse-Five boasts the same imagination, humanity, and gleeful appreciation of the absurd found in Vonnegut's other works, but the book's basis in rock-hard, tragic fact gives it a unique poignancy--and humor.
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Rereading this classic, which combines the horrors of the 1945 bombing of Dresden with the sfnal captivity of the hero by the aliens of Tralfamadore. Having first come to Vonnegut via Cat's Cradle and The Sirens of Titan as a teenager, I wasn't really sure what to make of this. Coming to it again a quarter-century later, I have a much deeper appreciation of Vonnegut's savaging of the surrealism of war, and of how trauma throws the rest of your life into a weird perspective. But I also find his attitude to women much more annoying - at least, to the women in the main part of the story, the mothers of Billy Pilgrim's children, Valencia Merble and Montana Wildhack (and Pilgrim's daughter Barbara). Having said that, the sanest character in the book is probably Mary O'Hare from the ostensibly autobiographical foreword; and it must also be admitted that most of the male characters are pretty unpleasant too.
Anyway, I can't think of many other sf novels which take the Second World War as their subject, and this is probably the best in that rather small set.