Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

I do not know what to expect from this book, so I have never read Vonnegut before and I do not quite know exactly what this book is like, but I am very much expecting it. I have read the praise of this book and I often recommend it to me. I am usually disappointed, so I usually try to avoid high expectations of writers I do not know. This is of course an exception

This is a very unique book. I have never read SF novels, but I like them very much. Vonnegut is a combination of history, criticism of war and science fiction. In my opinion, the strange combination initially did not appeal to me. Maybe this book is not so likely, so this book is very strange

It was difficult to read when I started (It may be that I did not have the correct mood) but then the flow was very easy, the story made me crazy. The hero is very interesting: time Traveler, but very ordinary Americans. Soldier, optometrist, time travel. It is not the best soldier but by chance the average optometrist at every point, but the fact that time travel, and he was kidnapped by an alien. Perhaps the fact that he is a very ordinary person makes this story so irrelevant

This is a book of science fiction, yes, but more importantly, this is a book about war. This book tries to depict the war from surviving soldiers and all the fears of how he experienced war. This book reminds Johnny Got The Gun. War is awful, and those who pay the ultimate price are young rustic soldiers and innocent victims.

Briefly, Slaughterhouse - Five is widely regarded as the best work of American writer Kurt Vonnegut in anti - war novels. It was written in the late 1960s, but the events and stories of this novel still exist. Slaughterhouse-Five is a small book, but has succeeded in exploring multiple philosophies. The first chapter of this book clearly shows that this book is not the honor of glory and war heroes. The main character Billy Pilgrim was chosen and sent to the forefront of the war. He is not a hero, he survives in weak, and in a way a war and his remaining life. Weak people such as Timothy Otham in the movie "Save the Great Ryan" (1998), servants, cowards, and the movie "A Gan Zhengchuan (1994) Forrest A - Gump" are lucky. And other characters and war soldiers are not superheroes, they are all tired men who fell into war.

Slaughterhouse-Five's comment was basically positive, since the New York Times reported on March 31, 1969: "You prefer it or push it back to the corner of science fiction" . The novel became a best seller, was selected for 16 weeks in the New York Times' bestseller list, and finished 4th. In 1970, Slaughterhouse Five was nominated for Best Novel Nebula and Hugo Award. It lost Ursula K. Le Guin's "Dark Left Hand". In 1998, the modern library ranked Slaughterhouse-Five as the 20th best English novel in the 20th century. It is also on the list of 100 best British novels written by Time Magazine since 1923.