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Slaughterhouse-Five
- KarmabalanceDeb 16y agoTime changes everything. That certainly goes for the way you feel about the books you've read. It also changes the way you feel about books that you've always wanted to read and are just now getting around to reading. I like and agree with your review. Remember when the book was written it was a much more naive time, not just for us, but for the world as well. We were still practicing for the Russian invasion. How can you not love a character named Kilgore Trout? Mr. Vonnegut was nothing if not "trip-y".
- futuremint 16y agoI always try to appreciate the context of the times when a story was written. Learning a little more of the external context within which a story was written can, at times, enhance the understanding of the story. This might be a story that lends itself to that. Maybe. I read this book in high school and thought it was ok then, but I didn't really understand why the people I knew who read it thought it was so great. I didn't do any research about the era this was written in though, so I don't really know if it'd help or not. It certainly is trippy though and an entertaining read in the least.
- jbooth 16y agoOne thing I love about Vonnegut is that certain kinds of naivete retain their wisdom long after the sophisticated opinions of the day have changed.
- ukdm 16y agoIs it just me or is the text on that page very difficult to read?
- DanielBMarkham 16y agoLooks okay to me in Chrome, FF, and IE. Anything in particular that makes it hard to read?
- ukdm 16y agoViewing it with FF4 and it looks squashed http://i.imgur.com/r5TiZ.jpg http://i.imgur.com/r5TiZ.jpg
- jerf 16y agoI can't replicate that in FF4 on Linux, even by zooming out. Text remains legible at all sizes up to the point where it's simply too small to see through the pixelization. The computed font shows as '"Liberation Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif'; perhaps you've got a bad render on one of those?
- barrkel 16y agoFF4 with hardware acceleration enabled has absolutely horrific font rendering; have you tried disabling it?
- tvon 16y agoNo, but in Safari I'm seeing the content column below the sidebar column.
- gommm 16y agoSame here... I'm using Safari 5.0.4
- brudgers 16y ago>"it seemed a bit trite." And so it goes.
- filosofo 16y agoThe point of the book isn't so much to argue against war in general as to argue against the idea that war is inevitable. The idea that war and specific acts of war are unavoidable parts of the human condition is supposed to seem as insane and pathetic as the protagonist's passive view of his life, a view that comes from his beliefs about time travel.