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Science Fiction
- Classics
Title: Slaughterhouse Five (Or The Children's Crusade) Author: Kurt Vonnegut Rating:  Must Read!
Publisher: Dell Publishing Co., Inc. Reviewed by: Liz Dederich |
 
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This is one of my top ten favorites which I have read numerous times (and enjoy more each time I read it). I usually do not lean towards science fiction or war pieces, which how I would classify this work, but it is a very unusual piece of literature. Some of my favorite books are not great works of art, but are interesting peeks into the creative mind of the author. Kurt Vonnegut displays an unusual theory on how we view time travel and life. In a nutshell, Billy Pilgrim becomes unstuck in time. He is able to visit any time in his life and relive each moment over and over. He travels back to World War II, his marriage, his children's lives and, of course, when he is abducted by the Tralfamadorians (aliens who help Billy become unstuck in time) and put into their version of a zoo. Billy never really dies because he can move from one period of his life to another over and over.
What comes from this work is a strangely interwoven tale of
World War II (the title comes from where Billy and his
fellow prisoners of
war hid during the famous fire-bombing of Dresden), middle
class life, alien abduction and how we believe life is lived
moment after
moment (the Tralfamadorians live life as though it were on a
record, being able to visit any moment of their life out of
order). It is a
great ride following Billy Pilgrim through his life as he
moves from one aspect of time to the other. A must read!!!
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