I really enjoyed this book because of the writing style of Kurt Vonnegut. I thought it was awesome how Vonnegut explained a lot of the least meaningful details really far in depth, while he was super vague on some of, perhaps, the most important parts. I also found it kind of amusing how Vonnegut was so abrupt about what was happening. For example, the first sentence of chapter nine on page 182 was "Here is how Billy Pilgrim lost his wife, Valencia." Furthermore, I thought it was interesting how he stated her name at the end. Did we really need him to clarify who he was talking about? Maybe it's just me, but I would think it was pretty clear considering that just pages before they were having their 18th wedding anniversary. I just think that overall Vonnegut's style was super cool, and it made the book really good.
I do have to say, however, that I don't completely know if I caught on to the purpose of the book. I figured out that Vonnegut is a fan of repetition (well, at least he is in this book), but I don't think I understood the full meaning of all the repetition. I think that I will have to read the book again to understand it entirely.
I also feel that I didn't fully understand the meaning of the book. I ended up just being really confused. I guess maybe the book was supposed to be sort of confusingb ecause Billy was crazy, so maybe Vonnegut wanted to mess with the readers' minds so they would feel more like Billy.
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