Slaughterhouse Five (6)

Slaugherhouse Five
Kurt Vonnegut
Read 2/16/09

I read a book of Vonnegut's short stories last year, he started as a science fiction writer and you could see that in many of his stories. This is a book roughly about his war experience as a German POW. It is told from the point of view of a time traveling optometrist who spends time as a POW and also as a zoo specimen on a foreign planet. It is a odd way to look at an awful and powerful story and in the end the message comes across stronger than if he would have just told it. The use of humor gives a side line to make the awful bits more powerful.