Slaughterhouse-Five. What did /lit/ think of it?
reddit: the novel
never read it in high school, tried to pick it up in college but by then it was too late to ignore the obvious flaws. seems like a really good book to get people into literature though. actually, in my experience it's more like "read this one book then claim to enjoy literature", but whatever, better than nothing I guess.
>>7693751
Vonnegut was a meme author, and had no discernible talent. He was shitposting, and is literally genre tier fiction. clearly a juvenile author.
>>7693751
It's OK. Worth reading for the fire-bombing in reverse part.
I liked it a lot it is very simplistic but it made me laugh and it made me think. I enjoyed the time traveling and the reverse bombing was great
The whole of the book is neatly curtailed in the part where he is in the hospital bed, overhearing the man next to him talk about Dresden. Billy (Kurt) wants people to recognize the atrocity of the bombing of Dresden, but he man thinks he just has echolalia. this is just like the book, where half of it is an engaging war story, and the other half is softcore porn alternating between a large BBW and a porn star voyeurism fantasy with plunger aliens
>>7693932
I actually can't disagree with this is at all. Probably best possible comment.
>>7693792
Yeah it got me into more dense stuff once I read it in middle school.
Essential "quirky" literature. Any boring hipstery faggot who thinks wrist tattoos are cool will love this book.
Vonnegut is a mediocre author and his style is more sentimental than a thousand Steven Spielbergs with a dusting of powdered sugar on top. His characters are boring, his writing is boring, his beliefs are idiotic.
>so it goes XD
Cliche ridden shit. A waste of time. YA tier
Never read it tho
While it's nowhere as bad as people in this thread (and most other threads here) have said it is, it's also not that good. It works as a very simple intro to postmodernism, or just as a light read inbetween more dense things.
Very good book though not as good as Sirens of Titan. Important for getting the public to realize that the Allies weren't some all benevolent force of good and killed a lot of civilians too.
Unfortunately the uninformed like to bandy it about as a top tier piece of literature because it's the only non-YA they've read so you get a backlash of the informed shitting all over it. Truth is it's a very fine book. No more, no less.
Experimental for its time. Showed the war in a different light.
I didn't care too much for it. Definitely worth reading though.
>>7693751
Fine for adolescents. I adored it when I was 15-16. If I reread it, I would probably find many faults with it, and I doubt it would have much more appeal than sentimental value.
Vonnegut as a whole is really quite fine for adolescents. He gets a lot of hate, partially because his fanbase is admittedly horrible people, and partially because a lot of people read him too late in life.
>>7693796
Touched my adolescent heart, no irony.
The book is a lot more tragic than a lot of the horrible people in his fanbase realize.
>>7694213
Kek.
>>7694244
Agreed. I don't actually think anyone here who enjoys Vonnegut considers him profound or his works to be great literature. That would be what the aforementioned horrible fanbase would do.
It's a shitty catch 22
