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Slaughterhouse Five - What’s the Big Deal?
I read it; it was good. It was funny and it was interesting. My first time reading Kurt Vonnegut.
I’m surprised it’s called the most powerful and moving anti-war book of all time. Maybe at the time of writing, with the context of the Vietnam War, it was revolutionary to suggest how devastating war is, particularly when the damage was inflicted by the US. But, really, did people not understand that winning a war against an enemy, means killing a lot of them? This book wasn’t particularly graphic, personal, or critical of the things that happened. It just laid them out as they were, or in Tralfamadorian speak, as they always are.
I’m equally surprised this book has been censored so much. There’s a passage where teenage carpenter Jesus is hired to build a cross to crucify someone, and thinks nothing of it besides being happy for business. I found this to be funny, but I guess I can see why a few Christians would be motivated to censor this from school. But, from what I’ve read online, it seems a lot of the censorship comes from a place attacking this book for being convincingly anti-war in a way that is anti-patriotic. And that’s just not what I took from this book at all.
Does this make me desensitized? Enlightened? An average Joe? Just curious to hear others' thoughts
#entertainment
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I read it; it was good. It was funny and it was interesting. My first time reading Kurt Vonnegut.
I’m surprised it’s called the most powerful and moving anti-war book of all time. Maybe at the time of writing, with the context of the Vietnam War, it was revolutionary to suggest how devastating war is, particularly when the damage was inflicted by the US. But, really, did people not understand that winning a war against an enemy, means killing a lot of them? This book wasn’t particularly graphic, personal, or critical of the things that happened. It just laid them out as they were, or in Tralfamadorian speak, as they always are.
I’m equally surprised this book has been censored so much. There’s a passage where teenage carpenter Jesus is hired to build a cross to crucify someone, and thinks nothing of it besides being happy for business. I found this to be funny, but I guess I can see why a few Christians would be motivated to censor this from school. But, from what I’ve read online, it seems a lot of the censorship comes from a place attacking this book for being convincingly anti-war in a way that is anti-patriotic. And that’s just not what I took from this book at all.
Does this make me desensitized? Enlightened? An average Joe? Just curious to hear others' thoughts
#entertainment
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