Aliens, Time Travel, and Dresden - Slaughterhouse-Five Part 1: Crash Course Literature 212

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10 жыл бұрын

In which John Green teaches you about Kurt Vonnegut's most famous novel, Slaughterhouse-Five. Vonnegut wrote the book in the Vietnam era, and it closely mirrors his personal experiences in World War II, as long as you throw out the time travel and aliens and porn stars and stuff. Slaughterhouse-Five tells the story of Billy Pilgrim, a World War II veteran who was a prisoner of war, survived the Battle of the Bulge and the fire-bombing of Dresden, goes home after the war, and has trouble adapting to civilian life (this is the part that's like Vonnegut's own experience). Billy Pilgrim has flashbacks to the war that he interprets as being "unstuck in time." He believes he's been abducted by aliens, and pretty much loses it. You'll learn a little about Vonnegut's life, quite a bit about Dresden, and probably more than you'd like about barbershop quartets as a metaphor for post-traumatic stress.
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@bolivarescobar 10 жыл бұрын

I love the part in which Billy cries for the first time, after seeing the horses with their wounded mouths. I think that this is a very accurate description of sadness, of being unable to notice the evil we cause to others.

@LaurokaPlay 7 жыл бұрын

"Well, I can smoke or I can leave" is the writer I hope to one day be wow

@iammrbeat 10 жыл бұрын

One of my favorite books. I'm glad you covered this. A must read for any human.

@nolanfontaine7973 5 жыл бұрын

Just finished reading this book while on standby at my construction job in Utah. I'm 19, and Vonnegut has now become my favorite author. Thank you Crash Course for becoming an instrumental part in my young adult life and for reminding me of the freedoms associated with education.

@WestPictures 10 жыл бұрын

"It is so short and jumbled and jangled, Sam, because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead, to never say anything or want anything ever again. Everything is supposed to be very quiet after a massacre, and it always is, except for the birds. And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like "Poo-tee-weet?"

@shary497 5 жыл бұрын

“Everybody on the planet wanted to see the Earthlings mate. Montana was naked, and so was Billy, of course. He had a tremendous wang, incidentally. You never know who will get one.” God I love this book. It’s so wonderfully weird

@UltimateKyuubiFox 5 жыл бұрын

Humberto Avila It’s meaninglessness. Massacre is meaningless. There’s nothing to say about it that can properly convey its impact due to how horrific it is and how mundane it becomes once it happens. It’s equivalent to phoneticized bird-speech-of a bird basically going “Huh?” It’s indescribable and empty and life keeps moving anyway.

@connordixon4893 4 жыл бұрын

HugoAgility one of my favorite parts is, “Billy looked inside the latrine. The wailing was coming from in there. The place was crammed with Americans who had taken their pants down. The welcome feast had made them as sick as volcanoes. The buckets were full or had been kicked over. An American near Billy wailed that he had excreted everything but his brains. Moments later he said, 'There they go, there they go.' He meant his brains. That was I. That was me. That was the author of this book.” God, he was awesome

@seels9 4 жыл бұрын

@@UltimateKyuubiFox It's not meaningless. Basically it means that Billy was unsatisfied with the way he was in reality. On Tralfamador, whether it is Montana, or his wang, he had an idealized version of himself. Tralfamador is where Billy goes when he's too overwhelmed with traumatic experiences.

@ReadHeadPat 10 жыл бұрын

I cannot express how happy I am that you guys at Crash Course decided to cover Slaughterhouse-Five, it is one of my all time favorite books. I am doing a research paper on it, (comparing some themes it has with Catcher in the Rye). One of my favorite passages from the novel is "I have lit my way in a prison at night with candles from the fat of human beings who were butchered by the brothers and fathers of those schoolgirls who were boiled." this quote just highlights so many different levels of cruelty and destruction from both countries of the war and I just love the way Vonnegut addresses the nonsensical nature of war and time and all of those horribly fascinating things.

@Caperhere 5 жыл бұрын

When I was seven, I went to my great grandmothers funeral. I vividly remember having an overwhelming urge to laugh. Then I had a recurring dream about her for months. I was ashamed of her funeral until I learned about hysteria.

@Tacsponge 10 жыл бұрын

WHAT. You make Pilgrim sound insane. Pilgrim isn't insane. HE HAS become unstuck in time!

@pufelmulticolorido 4 жыл бұрын

Well, I think what makes the novel so interesting is that it's never really addressed if it's all real or not. Try googling Slaughterhouse-Five PTSD. You'll find that there so many heavy implications throughout the whole story that Billy is delusional. But the good thing is that it's still up to interpretation.

@nerdimusprime8753 4 жыл бұрын

I think it’s really both

@Le_Samourai 4 жыл бұрын

Nerdimus Prime Billy becomes unstuck in time because he is stuck in his situation. He believes he has no free will because he is just a “baby” compared to the large war, a passive actor who decides to be ambivalent to everything to cope with the grief (even if that grief spills out in his sleep and when he is alone)

@Jayhazy23 4 жыл бұрын

Impossible

@nataliagonzalez1698 4 жыл бұрын

In a way PTSD is being unstuck in time in real life

@lyadmilo 10 жыл бұрын

You cannot say for certain that, within the world of the novel, the Tralfamadorians don't exist. Both scenarios - PTSD flashbacks, and real alien intervention, are given equal plausibility within the novel. Saying it is all fantasy, for sure, lessens the impact of the novel's examination on alternate histories and the power of narrative.

@FrostedSapling 10 жыл бұрын

I quite like the idea that, within the world of the novel, the Tralfamodorians are real, because no one believes Pilgrim and he can never find the right words to make them believe much like how Vonnegut cannot find the words to describe the bombing

@robert.sec2 10 жыл бұрын

Yeah I was pretty surprised that John came out with such a strong reading of Pilgrim as insane when the ambiguity is so important to the novel. Maybe that was just for the introduction and next episode we'll get a more balanced reading.

@najarianleskowitz4866 8 жыл бұрын

+Ivan Navarro, why are you putting the Kurt off your read shelf?

@Cathoholicism 5 жыл бұрын

It's all pilgrims imagination. The adult bookstore perfectly describes everything that had built that world for him.

@reyiven7625 5 жыл бұрын

99 I add 1=100

@bria4404 7 жыл бұрын

I read this book for the first time last week (I know I'm quite late to the party) and I read it all in pretty much one sitting. After finishing it I didn't really think much about it and it left me kind of feeling nothing too overwhelming one way or the other about the novel. However, in this past week I've found myself thinking more and more about it and realizing just how brilliant it was as well as how important of a story it was to be told. This is definitely a novel I think everyone should read at least once and it makes me a little disappointed that it was never a part of my required reading in High School.

@michaelreilly9502 5 жыл бұрын

Trout Pilgrim Campbell Hoover Constant Elliot Rosewater unstuck in TIME

@correypeta 4 жыл бұрын

Because of you, I’ll go read it.

@LostOmin 10 жыл бұрын

One of my absolute favorite books, every time I read it I seem to get a different message in the end.

@crashcourse 10 жыл бұрын

In which John Green teaches you about Kurt Vonnegut's most famous novel, Slaughterhouse-Five. Aliens, Time Travel, and Dresden -Slaughterhouse-Five Part I: Crash Course Literature 212

@nekoma7a 9 жыл бұрын

Hey John, maybe someday you can do Cat's Cradle? I dunno. I liked it.

@brunorobinson1759 8 жыл бұрын

+CrashCourse +John Green thank you John Green for making English, a subjected I hated, into something interesting and informative

@falnica 7 жыл бұрын

I didn't thought of the time travel nor the aliens as hallucinations

@evanfinnigan 10 жыл бұрын

Slaughterhouse Five is my favourite book. It is an incredible piece of literature.

@crystalp7242 5 жыл бұрын

I just started reading this one, and I just wanted to thank Crash Course Literature for making me want to read it! I’ve already read the first chapter, and I think I’m already beginning to enjoy Kurt Vonnegut’s writing style. (Especially since the last book I just finished reading was the ridiculously long War and Peace, which probably deserves an episode or two of its own.)

@Lucols4 10 жыл бұрын

You met Kurt? Dude that's so awesome

@anabel4105 6 жыл бұрын

That was extremely insightful. I always appreciate delving into the minds of writers, because it's just so fascinating the way their brains must function when writing. The part in the video where you mention how Vonnegut uses metaphors and analogies to block out the reality of Dresden's devastation was powerful and evoked goosebumps from me. I read his book over the summer, but the thought of that part of his writing never occurred to me. It really just goes to show how much thought is put into the language, structure, form, and just everything within a novel.

@Jack7967 10 жыл бұрын

I love this series. I get so much science in my normal course work that its nice to take a break and hear you discuss literature.

@dominicmako4649 10 жыл бұрын

I was waiting this entire video series to get to this book. Kurt poured so much of himself into most of his works, and his writing style is so conversational, that it's very easy to make a personal connection with the narrator/author. In Breakfast of Champions he even put the author literally into the storyline. Slaughterhouse Five is the kind of work that benefits from multiple readings, like a youtube video with little easter egg references that you only notice the second time through.

@SlimThrull 10 жыл бұрын

"Well, I can smoke or I can leave."

@kendalltracey3143 7 жыл бұрын

Congrats on 5+ million subscribers, Crash Course Team! So proud and happy for you guys.

@skinkrackz 7 жыл бұрын

Dear John Green, I can relate my art style to certain passages in this novel, if not my writing style (I'm not the most talented writer). I like to evoke emotions that others would generally prefer not to have aroused such as discomfort or confusion using surrealist and absurd artwork and, well, my comedy too. I've been doing this for years with my paintings and drawings, but I never really understood why I did it. That was until you so perfectly described the scene with the guards and it really opened my eyes to why I do what I do. Thank you so much making a subject I used to despise into something I enjoy doing for fun. Best Wishes, Griffin Durning

@PizzaPlatypus 10 жыл бұрын

Also surprised you didn't bring up the short segment about the horse, that was the part that struck me as the most powerful and detailed about the aftermath of the bombing and kind of goes against the idea of vague descriptions

@gigibyte_ 4 жыл бұрын

Literature is really a combination of everything. History, psychology, the past, the future... it's quite interesting to see how everything played out.

@lalideni 8 жыл бұрын

Dearest John, When the Ernest Hemingway will you start making CC Literature videos again? Best wishes, Lit. Nerdfighters

@grrr1351 6 жыл бұрын

CC Lit is actually coming soon.

@trilliaannisa2201 7 жыл бұрын

Thanks John Green for introducing me to Kurt Vonnegut. It really changed my life

@Birdfreak2010 10 жыл бұрын

As with other Vonnegut novels, Slaughterhouse-Five was a book that gave me more of a feeling than a precise memory of the plot. In fact, I read it 2 years ago and only remembered the description of women picking through the Dresden rubble. This was a great reminder of what Vonnegut was saying with this novel, but I also think it is cool that his writing can make the plot seem irrelevant, but still pull you in and make you think about the things he wanted you to think about.

@WitlessGentlemen 10 жыл бұрын

Great summation and analysis. Vonnegut is my favourite author and you do him justice. I look forward to part 2. And so it goes.

@nfinn42 10 жыл бұрын

One of my favorite novels, and authors, of all time. Learning that John got a chance to meet Kurt, which I never did, is just another reason thrown on the towering pile of reasons to be jealous of John Green. Vonnegut was one of my greatest heroes.

@haotianyang9216 10 жыл бұрын

Mr.Green. I hope you can talk about the book "1984" in crash course literature, that book is just so amazing...

@sagegoering11 9 жыл бұрын

This is an ode to all of the people put into harm's way, to the people that bravely keep this world from disarray. This is an ode to the hidden ones, warring on Hell's raft, raging on through bullet rain, fighting the devil's laugh. This goes out to all those souls, holding back their fears keeping others safe and sound by keeping darkness from coming near. This is an ode to all the people, the old, and the terribly young, just know that we will always hear the songs that you have sung.

@TheSchoopdawhoop 10 жыл бұрын

So it goes. One of my favorite books of all time, thank you for doing this!

@MariannesStudio 10 жыл бұрын

I really want to read this book now. Thanks Crash Course!

@TheAvatarWan 10 жыл бұрын

I love you, John Green. I subscribed to CrashCourse a few weeks ago and already love the content. I've also read your book, The Fault In Our Stars recently. Fell in love with it. :) Thank you (x1,000)

@VlasicGames 10 жыл бұрын

I had no idea that you were the author behind "The Fault in our stars" i loved your book, you are absolutely fantastic. I can't wait tho see the film and i love what you do! Thankyou for living you life for others!!!!!!!

@ChrisReadsBooks 10 жыл бұрын

I was very worried about Crash Course's work on this book, seeing as how it is my favorite. I am glad how it came out. Vonnegut is my favorite author and I believe this video did the book justice, I look forward to the next video.

@tiffahkay 10 жыл бұрын

JOHN, I've been waiting for you to do Slaughterhouse 5 cos its just so weird but still beautiful. Thanks

@mchllme 10 жыл бұрын

This was my favorite book from AP Langauge and I'm so glad you're going over this!

@terralynn9 10 жыл бұрын

I'm really loving Crash Course Literature, even though I haven't read many of the books. This is definitely one I'll add to my 'to read' list.

@Bkmlb 10 жыл бұрын

the thoughtbubble animation in this one is particularly fantastic

@bidaubadeadieu 10 жыл бұрын

ahh this is like my favorite book, well done John and the Crashcourse team

@austinwilliams3305 Жыл бұрын

Kurt Vonnegut is unrivaled in his writing style, so unique

@weirdral 10 жыл бұрын

I read this book in my AP English class in high school, and I enjoyed it so much I have gone and read a lot of the other Kurt Vonnegut books and I loved how much crossover there is in his books. The Tralfamadorians are amazing creatures, and I just really, really, really, liked this book.

@joeyskunk 7 жыл бұрын

John Green, thank you for the wonderful video. It inspired me to read the novel again. My father was a WWII veteran. As a boy, I never thought of my father and Kurt Vonnegut as contemporaries, since Vonnegut struck me as more of a hippy. However, they were both more similar than I imagined as a boy. Today we describe Post Traumatic Stress Disease, but I believe both men suffered the same way. To witness death and destruction on that level was truly horrible. To hear my father talk about battlefields of dead and to see Munich as city so leveled by bombs, he could see from one end of the city to the other. Unlike my father, Vonnegut could talk about his experience nearly immediately after the war.

@mrwachandgame 10 жыл бұрын

I'm ironically writing a paper for my American study's class about this book. I say it's ironic because I had no idea it was a book. I was given the topic and told to wright what I know, which was nothing so it became a creative writing peace. So thank you again Mr. Green, for helping me with my study's.

@graemeharry8456 7 жыл бұрын

One of my favourite authors discussing another one of my favourites. Love it!

@djmitrano 10 жыл бұрын

i am really liking crash course literature, keep it up John

@sophiarodriguez2010 10 жыл бұрын

"NO SINGING ME FROM THE PAST!" said every person who grew up, ever

@jesstaff5346 10 жыл бұрын

Every time I see a night vale shirt in one of these, my day is made a thousand times better.

@Redem10 10 жыл бұрын

Well someone in detroit need to make a band called Slaughterhouse-Five

@juststeveschannel 10 жыл бұрын

We had the MC-5, which comes pretty close, if you know their music. They were the progenitors of punk music, if you don't.

@gabbls_ 5 жыл бұрын

Did I see your comment on EarthBound Did you know gaming part 2?

@bradeng7158 5 жыл бұрын

The Dave Clark Slaughterhouse 5

@kamuelalee 5 жыл бұрын

Slaughterhouse featuring the Dave Clark Five

@hdgehog6 10 жыл бұрын

This was one of the first books I read when I was a kid back in the '70s. I still remember it. Vonnegut, Phillip Roth and Hunter Thompson influence my writing style in my novels.

@digdoug31 10 жыл бұрын

I wish I hadn't seen this until next week. Now I'll spend a whole week wondering why "So It Goes" still hits me way too deep.

@nolanthiessen1073 10 жыл бұрын

Finally we get to SH5! This brings me back to my highschool days.

@hubridnox 10 жыл бұрын

Glad I was assigned this book in high school. Vonnegut is a great writer for young people to attempt wrapping their heads around.

@bunny39420 6 жыл бұрын

I fudging love Vonnegut! For years, this has been my favorite book!

@TobyKidMajor 10 жыл бұрын

The phrase "so it goes" can be found in John Green's introduction to This Star Won't Go Out. Also, pertaining to the truth of fiction especially in "war stories" The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien goes nicely with Slaughterhouse Five.

@iluvDNA100 10 жыл бұрын

John Green probably said "So it goes" as a reference.

@EnderNasworthy 10 жыл бұрын

Whoa, so someone else already saw the similarities in those two books. Nice.

@robert.sec2 10 жыл бұрын

Joe Seph iirc he explicitly continually references the novel in Katherines. I think it's probably up there with DFW in terms of influential-on-John-Green-things

@PninianPnin 10 жыл бұрын

Scott Ferrell The Things They Carried is a work of fiction. Amazing, though it be.

@macncheesetv9816 9 жыл бұрын

Now with crash corse, I not only learn something but I actually keep stuff I learned at school in my brain over summer. Thank you!

@MsRadiorebel 10 жыл бұрын

Can you do a crash course on Markus Zusak's book, "The Book Thief."

@MrDylan2125 10 жыл бұрын

This may be my favorite episode so far.

@jamesfarmer8463 10 жыл бұрын

Never really got what was so great about this book, pretty standard. Nothing spectacular.

@josephallison4302 10 жыл бұрын

So it goes.

@chickenspy1854 10 жыл бұрын

I was more into the concepts put forward during the sci-fi parts of the book. The idea that time is nonlinear, and that humans can not perceive the full truth of time. The philosopher in me was over excited by the idea of death being of no consequence simply for the fact that death isn't forever, because everything before it is.

@TheSugarRay 10 жыл бұрын

I feel like you weren't paying attention. To be jaded is a personal problem that is one part ignorance and entirely self-indulgent.

@theicedragon100 10 жыл бұрын

@purplesully 10 жыл бұрын

ChickenSpy You should read The Sirens of Titan by Vonnegut if you liked that part of the story. Also read the Watchmen graphic novel if you haven't already. They both explore those concepts.

@StephenDahlke 10 жыл бұрын

This really makes me want to see a CC-Lit video on some of PKD's works. Valis is the most obvious one to relate to the discussions in this video, but really, I think any of them would be a great 10-minute dive.

@bagel76 10 жыл бұрын

You could do an entire crash course series on Kurt Vonnegut and it still wouldn't be enough. His books are incredible. Also you should do an episode on Catch-22.

@that.girl.ijeoma 10 жыл бұрын

Uggghhhh if only this was uploaded before my literature exam!! It would have helped a ton!

@puppylover06152001 10 жыл бұрын

I just showed these videos to my English teacher. I hope he plans to use them!

@UberMan5000 10 жыл бұрын

Miss'r Green! Miss'r Green! Have you considered an episode about Catch-22? It's another humorous anti-war novel that definitely merits compelling analysis, especially because it predates much of the 60s counterculture that has embraced Slaughterhouse-Five. Much could be learned from it!

@stephenknoll1227 10 жыл бұрын

Finally I have been waiting for this. My favorite author ever.

@NickSheridanVids 10 жыл бұрын

Great book, great author, great Crash Course. I wish I had more to add :)

@malnoch3520 6 жыл бұрын

If you ever decide to get Slaughterhouse Five on audiobook, get the one narrated by James Franco. His voice adds greatly to the experience.

@MaximilianonMars 10 жыл бұрын

Seeing the intros on previous eps of Crashcourse Literature I realized Slaughterhouse-Five was a book my buddy once read aloud, but I didn't get its name. Picked it up at the library a couple days ago and finished it in time for this episode, what a great show :)

@MrTerradell 10 жыл бұрын

So glad you are finally talking about this book. Also, good job Thought Bubble/Café, nice Metal Gear Solid reference.

@LoganWhiteIsAwesome 10 жыл бұрын

That little Rick and Morty reference (1:28) was great

@819613 8 жыл бұрын

I listen to crash course all the time, crash course is interesting while giving the viewer entertainment , thanks guys!!!

@OlafoWaffle 10 жыл бұрын

I discovered this novel after my first deployment to Iraq in 06-07, it had a profound impact on my views about the war.

@PranavanathanYoganathan 10 жыл бұрын

So I just finished reading Toni Morrison's "The Bluest Eyes" and I think it would make an excellent addition to the crash course lit series. Thanks for another great episode

@ReadHeadPat 10 жыл бұрын

Not sure about "The Bluest Eyes" but they are covering "Beloved" by Toni Morrison soon.

@chloeb.7999 10 жыл бұрын

As always thank you for doing this amazing book. And even though I will probably never meet you, John Green you are my Kurt Vonnegut. Except for the incredibly terrible life of course

@theawkwardcurrypot9556 5 жыл бұрын

3:50 I love you John Greene

@colinlee1237 10 жыл бұрын

I was waiting for this one for a while. Great video and amazing book.

@daveharrison84 10 жыл бұрын

I'm glad to live in a world where wars of that magnitude don't happen anymore and we are moving toward world peace.

@noellem9416 8 жыл бұрын

Hey! You do a lot of great novels, but I noticed you still have a lot more to do. Unless you've abandoned this series, I'd suggest you do more Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Dickens, and others. :)

@bassfight2936 8 жыл бұрын

Loved this book when I read it, very excited to finally understand it!

@GracieM17 8 жыл бұрын

1984 would be a great one to do an analysis on.

@skell0ton644 5 жыл бұрын

You got your wish. Check again.

@BillieRolih 10 жыл бұрын

That plant in the background continuously reminds me of the Simpson's Sideshow Bob. I saw it and can no longer unsee it.

@WikiRiffs 10 жыл бұрын

Great insight into a book I have yet to read, but really should. Also: the Thought Bubble this week was amazing and kinda beautiful!

@ellieanne8603 7 жыл бұрын

hahahah, loved that little Rick and Morty you included during Pilgrim's 'time travel'

@NightRaven511 10 жыл бұрын

If only you did this earlier :P I did Slaughterhouse-5 for my high school final paper! It's one of my favourite books.

@mitchdezylva8082 10 жыл бұрын

The comment you mad John, about testimony, reminded me of Elie Weisel's Noble Prize acceptance speech. He claimed that it was both a right and a responsibility to testify to the horror of the human condition, so we do not forget, and do not repeat the mistakes of the past

@PeterAmbos 10 жыл бұрын

I am currently in the rebuilt Dresden, I have lived here for the entire fifteen years of my so very short life. Thanks for giving me something read for the next time I need a book.

@zuzz9352 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks crash course, now I’ve got the Dave Clark Five stuck in my head

@WeBeYachting 8 жыл бұрын

Really liked this video and the editing is awesome.

@Pigloverfourteen 10 жыл бұрын

One of my favorite authors taking about one of my other favorite authors. This is perfect I love slaughter house 5 but I feel like cats cradle is he's under rated life changing novel

@christopherweston6028 10 жыл бұрын

Beautiful observations of an under unitized text. This should be read in schools across America.

@nellygaspar4894 4 жыл бұрын

I didn't read the book, so here I am watching these videos in hope it can help me write an essay due in 3 hours

@user-lp2fs4mg2x 7 жыл бұрын

"Billy couldn't read Tralfamadorain, of course, but he could at least see how the books were laid out in brief clumps of symbols separated by stars. Billy commented that the clumps might be telegrams. "Exactly," said the voice. " they are telegrams?" " there are no telegrams on Tralfamadore. But you're right: each clump of symbols is a brief, urgent message describing, a situation, a scene. We Tralfamadorians read them all at once, not one after the other. There isn't any particular relationship between all the messages, except that the author has chosen them carefully, so that, we see all at once, they produce an image of life that is beautiful and surprising and deep. There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time " - Vonnegut pg 88

@jfridy 10 жыл бұрын

I got to meet Kurt Vonnegut at Kent State in the mid 1990s. He was an entertaining storyteller in person as you would expect.

@everynamewastaken6995 7 жыл бұрын

What a great video. I read this book weeks ago and it has been bothering me ever since. Just kind of rattling around in my head and making me anxious. I keep thinking it was supposed to be funny, but every time I think of it I want to cry. This video was really enjoyable and well thought out. Awesome work, man.

@wait4tues 10 жыл бұрын

Its crazy how you can read a book and think one thing about it and then someone else reads the same book and gets something totally different from it. When i read slaughterhouse five i actually thought that billy pilgrim was a time traveler and that he had been taken by tralfamadorians. I love every bit of fiction and believed Pilgrim when he said he had seen the things he said. Now i want to reread the book from the perspective John presented. super cool stuff, this.

@joselemus737 6 жыл бұрын

Adding this to my bucket list for reading

@Dreamfounder 10 жыл бұрын

Thanks for covering my favorite author!

@chaoticneutral4665 10 жыл бұрын

Thanks cc such a great show . Gotta get a copy of this book now .

@johnfoerster9853 10 жыл бұрын

Loving the Welcome to Nightvale shirt John.

@Elizabeth-bz7jr 4 жыл бұрын

i loved this book because at the beginning the alien plot sounds obviously crazy but as it goes on you really think it happened and i think that speaks on subjective really well