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Black Rain by Masuji Ibuse | 8 | 15.09% | |
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurk Vonnegut | 22 | 41.51% | |
Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernieres | 2 | 3.77% | |
The Man Who Was Thursday by GK Chesterton | 6 | 11.32% | |
Life of Pi by Yann Marte | 2 | 3.77% | |
Ask the Dust (1939) by John Fante | 0 | 0% | |
The Help by Kathryn Stockett | 6 | 11.32% | |
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh | 3 | 5.66% | |
The Book of Fate by Brad Meltzer | 0 | 0% | |
Hounded by Kevin Hearne | 4 | 7.55% | |
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08-17-2011, 10:38 PM | #61 |
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by the time I was half way through I wanted to smack the author every time i read "so it goes.."
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Is there anyone here who has read Slaughterhouse-Five and actually enjoyed it? Not just OK or not bad. But truly enjoyed it.
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08-18-2011, 11:37 AM | #68 |
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^I enjoyed it. I had read a few other Vonnegut books prior to Slaughterhouse. I would always admit that Vonnegut's writing may not appeal to everyone and he can seem disjointed at times. But I like his wit and his view of things.
I'm going to talk a bit on "so it goes" here: Spoiler:
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I'm not going to stop reading and I do hope it gets better. But the way they got into Billy's store was very disjointed. I liked the bit before we got to Billy's story. Then we got to Billy and it's fallen flat so far.
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08-18-2011, 12:47 PM | #70 |
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I enjoyed it, though not as much as Cat's Cradle.
I think the point is that death is so common that it only rates a "so it goes," at least in the Tralfamadorian philosophy and to many of the warmakers. It seems to be at odds with the view of the narrator. And sometimes the phrase is used comically. " |
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08-18-2011, 02:19 PM | #73 |
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For right now, it feels like a poor man's Quantum Leap.
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08-18-2011, 04:59 PM | #74 |
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That's the exact way I felt for the first third of the book. The characters didn't feel real, and I felt no empathy with them. Then they began to take on flesh and become real people. By the novel's end, I felt very much involved in their lives, especially Billy Pilgrim's, who was really, according to Kurt Vonnegut, Edward R. Crone, Jr. Crone was a young man whose gentle temperament was completely unsuited for military life, and who died in Dresden of what Vonnegut says was known as the "thousand mile stare"; that is, he would sit with his back to the wall in a catatonic state and wouldn't talk, wouldn't eat, and the Germans would not help him.
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08-18-2011, 05:11 PM | #75 |
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It has gotten better. It seems less silly and there is less "so it goes" being used.
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