Slaughterhouse-Five

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"Written by: Kurt Vonnegut Published: 1969 Publisher: Delacorte Number of Pages: 215 “All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.” "

“There are some terrible reviews of SH5 floating around Goodreads, but one particularly awful sentiment is that Slaughterhouse-Five isn't anti-war.

This is usually based on the following quote.

"It had to be done," Rumfoord told Billy, speaking of the destruction of Dresden.

"I know," said Billy.

"That's war."

"I know. I'm not complaining"

"It must have been hell on the ground."

"It was," said Billy Pilgrim.

"Pity the men who had to do it."

"I do."

"You must have had mixed feelings, there on the ground."

"It was all right," said Billy. "Everything is all right, and everybody has to do exactly what he does. I learned that on Tralfamadore."

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My friends (91 books items)

"An account of an utterly depressed survivor of the war trying to make some sense to his total post-war desperate confusion with an imaginative power and a sense of humor rarely equaled in the history of literature."

1,001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1001 books items)

" book: FIC Vonne Kurt"