Slaughterhouse-Five sounded like a little above average book in the beginning. I was actually quite pleased that we were required to read it, because I would have probably of not made the right choice and have chosen it. .
I found it quite amusing, to be following a character named Billy Pilgrim who is spastic through time, and who was once abducted by aliens, called Traflamadorians. The spastic changes of the time of where the story takes place is confusing but amusing, however, I am grateful that Kurt Vonnegut still left a main story line which he kept on returning to throughout the book.
The passages about World War II were also interesting to me, because I am interested quite a bit in WWII myself. .
I found Billy's attitude throughout the book interesting as well, because he is quite confused about what's going on, but just goes through what's happening, or has happened, or is going to happen. .
I also enjoyed Kurt Vonnegut's attitude before the beginning of the story. "This one [war book] is a failure, and had to be, since it was written by a pillar of salt" (p. 28 Vonnegut). I was chuckling to myself throughout the book, and had the urge to repeat certain passages of it out loud to people around me, but sadly most of the time no one was there to endure my disgusting re-enactment of something funny.
I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys Douglas Adams, even though he is far past the degree of randomness of Kurt Vonnegut, or anyone who finds randomness funny. This book is also easy to read making time fly when you read this book.
