Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut - So You Haven't Read

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  @ThatFanBoyGuy · 3 years ago

  My favorite use of &quot;So it goes&quot; is when Vonnegut describes Billy cleaning with antibacterial cleaner. &quot;Millions of bacteria were dying. So it goes.&quot;

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  @duck8dodgers · 3 years ago

  When I was in high school my English teacher offered extra credit if you dressed as a literary character. I dressed as a Tralfamadorian, and he loved it.

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  @TheMightyZwom · 3 years ago

  Extra History: &quot;You always end up in Dresden again&quot;<br>Me, literally watching the video in Dresden: &quot;Well, yeah, I guess... So it goes&quot;

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  @DeidresStuff · 1 year ago

  My favorite quote is &quot;Why you? Why anybody?&quot; People love to wonder why bad things happen to them. Who do they propose they happen to?

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  @briangarrow448 · 3 years ago

  My brother gave me a boxed set of Vonnegut novels for Christmas when I was 14. That was 50 years ago. When he died a couple of years ago I mentioned at his funeral that he had introduced me to the wonderful world of literature. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater. And bless you, my dear brother Terry.

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  @andrewdavis8251 · 3 years ago

  Can&apos;t believe they got Jolyne Kujoh for this.

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  @jagvillani338 · 3 years ago

  When I was younger and saw this on a shelf, I figured I should read Slaughterhouse one through four before I picked this up.

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  @MsZeeZed · 3 years ago (edited)

  It was also subtitled “The Children’s Crusade” because the 106th division Vonnegut was part of in the Ardenne was one of the youngest and least experienced in the US Army in WWII. Although this chimed with the much younger US soldiers of the Vietnam War at publication of the novel, its was just a basic fact that the 106th were deliberately assigned to a “no trouble” front, where they were spread too thinly across a valley, to gain experience.

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  @reuvenknight1575 · 1 year ago

  Perhaps there is no sci-fi, just the soldier/veteran escaping into a world of fantasy to cope with his reality and his PTSD....

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  @ryanhouk3560 · 3 years ago

  I am going to read this back when i was in college. <br><br>It is going to touched me deeply

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  @idnyftw · 3 years ago

  in this episode, Jolyne Cujoh learns about Slaugterhouse Five, by Kurt Vonnegut

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