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\nBack in the days when I read every book in the local library which had that little squiggle on it that meant it was science fiction, I read and reread a hell of a lot of Vonnegut. Books like Breakfast for Champions<\/cite>,God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater<\/cite>, Slapstick<\/cite> and of course Slaughterhouse-Five<\/cite>. At the time I read them without any consideration of their literary status, but simply because Vonnegut was a science fiction author and I read science fiction, even if much of the Vonnegut novels I read weren’t quite science fiction. I liked them for their cynical black humour and inventive, seemingly slapdash plots.\n<\/p>\n \nRereading Slaughterhouse-Five<\/cite> some twenty years later it’s easy to see why it made such an impression as a work of literature and why it’s so popular with generations of English students. It’s chock full of the sort of symbolism that makes it an easy book to dissect in a student essay. However, that also makes it hard to write about now, almost forty years after its first publication, because so much has been written about it already. I don’t want to write a review that comes over as yet another student paper.\n<\/p>\n
\nSlaughterhouse-Five
\nKurt Vonnegut
\n215 pages
\npublished in 1969
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