Slaughterhouse Five

Title: Slaughterhouse-Five

Author: Kurt Vonnegut

Pages: 215

Genre: Fiction

Grade: B

Synopsis: Billy Pilgrim is a time traveler, who was abducted by aliens and forced to live on exhibit in an alien zoo.  Throughout the book there are flashbacks of Billy's time as a soldier in World War II.  The aliens who have abducted Billy Pilgrim do not experience time in a linear fashion as we do, and the book is written along these lines.

My Review: There are lots of well-known books that you hear about and wonder what they're about.  I knew very little aside from the title of this book and found the story and content to be a complete surprise.  It wasn't a bad book, in fact I quite enjoyed it.  It was just a little bit on the strange side, but what else is expected from Kurt Vonnegut? And so it goes.