Tag Archives: Vonnegut

I believe that I’ll not take this book out of my Amazon.com cart, feeling that even though I’ve read a library copy, it is a book that wants re-reading some day.  There’s more to be said about Vonnegut’s ability to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

An excellent read.  And while it’s not going to be one of my top ten favorite books of all time, I must say that I can well see what the big hoopla was all about.  Vonnegut, in a mix of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I suspect that Vonnegut is not so much fascinated with the question of parallel time as that he has chosen to use it as the perfect vehicle for this novel that is more a question of man’s warring nature and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Although I usually feel an immediate attraction to a particular author’s style (Marquez, Faulkner, McCarthy), I am questioning Vonnegut’s pull. Aside from the most annoying, "So it goes." that is overdone in my opinion–although I do catch its revelation of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

There is a definite relationship between Boethius’ interpretation of Divine Knowledge in answering the question of man’s free will versus the seeming contradiction of foreknowledge, and Vonnegut’s highlighting of that concept in his attempt to understand man’s free will to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Vonnegut plays with time in the story, precisely stating that the character of Billy Pilgrim becomes "unstuck in time."  But it is not only the character, but the author’s own way of handling backstory that plays with time. Once Vonnegut … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Something that I rarely do, and yet it’s not that I have never seen an image of the man before: Without immediate immersion in the story, I think upon the dustjacket of Slaughterhouse Five. Kurt Vonnegut.  The name itself is … Continue reading → Continue reading →