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Billy Pilgrim returns home from the Second World War only to be kidnapped by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore, who teach him that time is an eternal present.
andomck: Both books, besides having science fiction/magical realism elements, discuss bloody episodes of WWII from the point of view of everyday people.
Utilizador anónimo: Elliot Rosewater, the main character of God Bless You, Mr Rosewater, appears in Slaughterhouse-Five. Also, they both feature books from fictional author Kilgore Trout.
The first time I read this twenty years ago, I gave this 2 stars. That was back when I was offended by "gritty" writing styles, and there is some of it peppered throughout this novel. This time around, while it's still not the most comfortable for me, I can see it for what it is and see how it fits the story, the character, and the reality of the message. Basically, it isn't gratuitous; it fits.
I was also able to more clearly understand the symbolism, themes, and connections this time around. Vonnegut represented Billy so well in being so disconnected from his life, for good reason, except for those few moments when the reality of it all hits him. The character development made it quite clear and believable why Billy was experiencing life the way he was experiencing it. "Just go on without me." So much more deep and complex than I understood years ago. ( )
I didn't know much about this book, just that it's one of the greatest anti-war books according to the back cover. So I was quite surprised when the character started travelling in time and even more when he was abducted by alliens. I have some theories about what they might symbolise and who knows if I'm right or wrong. I didn't find Billy Pilgrim likeable because he doesn't do much, especially during the war. He is just there during these horrific events. And even though I don't like it, I might have been like him in a similar situation. I loved the writing because death, violence, trauma and helplessness are there but not highlighted. They just are. ( )
One of the most original and heartrending books I've read. A vivid mix of fantasy and memory, woven together magically. One of the true greats, with a distinctive voice. ( )
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
The cattle are lowing, The Baby awakes. But the little Lord Jesus No crying He makes.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
For Mary O'Hare and Gerhard Müller
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
All this happened, more or less.
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Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
There was a a soft drink bottle on the windowsill. Its label boasted that it contained no nourishment whatsoever.
I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies is not to fill them with satisfaction or glee.
You know — we've had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined that it was being fought by aging men like ourselves. We had forgotten that wars were fought by babies. When I saw those freshly shaved faces, it was a shock. "'My God, my God — ' I said to myself, 'It's the Children's Crusade.'"
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber.
'We don't ever have to talk about it,' said Billy. 'I just want you to know: I was there.'
How nice--to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought.
Billy covered his head with his blanket again. He always covered his head when his mother came to see him in the mental ward - always got much sicker until she went away. It wasn't that she was ugly, or had bad breath or a bad personality. She was a perfectly nice, standard-issue, brown-haired, white woman with a high-school education. She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrassed and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and Billy didn't really like life at all.
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.
There isn't any particular relationship between all the messages, except that the author has chosen them carefully, so that, when seen all at once, they produce an image of life that is beautiful and surprising and deep. There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of the many marvelous moments seen all at once time.
The master of ceremonies asked people to say what they thought the function of the novel might be in modern society, and one critic said, "To provide touches of color in rooms with all-white walls." Another one said, "To describe blow-jobs artistically."
Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit was diamonds. It attracted human beings who killed each other around the roots and made very good fertilizer. So it goes.
There was a big number over the door of the building. The number was five. Before the Americans could go inside, their only English-speaking guard told them to memorize their simple address, in case they got lost in the big city. Their address was this: 'Schlachthof-funf'. Schlachthof meant Slaughterhouse. Funf was good old five.
The most important thing i learned on Tralfamadore that when a person dies he [sic] only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly of [eople to cry at his funeral.
The gun made a ripping sound like the opening of the zipper on the fly of God Almighty
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
Billy Pilgrim returns home from the Second World War only to be kidnapped by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore, who teach him that time is an eternal present.
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