Jennifer Hong
Dec. 6. 2011
In my opinion, this book, Slaughterhouse-Five, is a lot more boring and less easy to read than The Great Gatsby. I like the Great Gatsby more because it makes more sense, and has an actual story. Slaughterhouse-Five has a story but I don't see the point of the story. I admit that it gets better the more I read but it confuses me a lot. I mean, I'd have to admit, it is a very interesting thing to read, but I don't know what the book is trying to tell me. It is a mixture of history and sci-fi, past and present (pg. 20-21, 24), which doesn't make sense to me. All the stuff about the aliens and such (pg. 57) I also feel as thought this book is very illiterate, which I'm sure is on purpose, but I just don't like it. Billy is a very interesting character and I don't know if this is good or not. Sometimes I feel as though he is just crazy, but I guess I could understand because of all the events in his life. I know I'd go koo-koo if I were him. I'm already going crazy just reading about his koo-koo life. I have a lot of questions about this book and about Billy. I wonder what was going through Kurt's mind when he was writing this story. What is the point of writing this book? What is Kurt Vonnegut trying to tell me? Is there some symbolic meaning behind this book? What is going to happen to Billy? How will he die in the future since he's always time traveling?
Yes, quite. Very good.
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