Sarah's Library

17/07 - It's a bit hard to know what to say about Slaughterhouse 5 that hasn't already been said by much more intelligent reviewers than myself.  I am of the opinion that while I understood the book - the words, sentences and even some complete paragraphs - I don't think I exactly got what it was about.  Most of the themes and oblique references that I caught a fleeting glimpse of went straight over my head and disappeared in the rear-view before I had the chance to fully examine them.  Other than the generic 'war is bad' theme that most books like this feature I couldn't really give a name to any of the other themes that were flitting about.  I found Billy Pilgrim's time travelling especially strange and confusing.  I wasn't sure if it was meant to be real time travel or a metaphor or some kind of dream sequence where the only real parts were when he was the oldest and the rest where dreams of his past experiences.