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Book Review By Joseph DeMarco
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

"Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time," kidnapped by space aliens, and put in a zoo/museum on the planet Tralfamadore with an adult film star named Montana Wildhack.

Slaughterhouse-Five is a classic anti-war novel about the firebombing of Dresden during World War II. However, most of the book jumps around through time: Billy as a senile widower, Billy on his wedding night, Billy as a soldier, Billy on Tralfamadore.

The book starts out during World War II, which is where Billy first becomes unstuck in time, and ends with the reader never quite sure of Billy's age, whether Billy is really unstuck in time, or this is the result of a nervous collapse.


Plot & Themes
Tone of book - depressing/sad
FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION? - part earth & part fantasy world
Time Travel: - into past and future equally
Inner Struggle Yes
Plotlet: - mental illness/nutsophrenia
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Time Travel story? Yes
Descript. of chases or violence - 10 %
planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 0 %
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 60 %
Descript. of society, phenomena (tech), places - 30 %
Story largely takes place in - 1900-1960's

Main Character
Identity: - Male
Profession/status:
Age: - long lived adults

Main Adversary
Identity: - natural phenomena

Setting
Takes place on Earth? Yes
Planet outside solar system? Yes

Writing Style
Accounts of torture and death? - no torture/death
scientific jargon? (SF only) - none/very little science jargon needed
Sex in book? Yes
How much dialogue? - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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