Rec | “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE” BY KURT VONNEGUT

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Rec'd on 📖 6/11: ONE (1) OF YOUR FAVORITE BOOKS

Speculative time traveling science fiction critiquing war, what’s not to like?
Not sure when this happened, but I used to be a voracious reader as a child, but then I stopped. I physically couldn’t without fully needing to recharge for hours and I was able to read this book without needing to struggle and charge again.
A lot of my love is tied up in that pride I felt in reading and enjoying for the first time in years.

@ak__ikk0

Jun 11, 2025

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@dracula

vonnegut was such a genius. there's a section early in slaughterhouse-five that always makes me cry, when he's talking about lot's wife turning back to soddom and gomorrah, and he says "and i love her for that, because it was so human. so she was turned into a pillar of salt. so it goes."

Jun 12, 2025

@mturkk

YES! This is one of my favorites as well <3

Jun 11, 2025

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