Slaughterhouse-Five A Novel; 50th anniversary edition

Did you read Slaughterhouse-Five?

Like reading, um, slaughterhouse five helped me write the visit. I don't know why, you know, it just, it just, it evokes something in me.

Like reading, um, slaughterhouse five helped me write the visit. I don't know why, you know, it just, it just, it evokes something in me.

At the time, some of his catalog, including Slaughterhouse-Five, was being taken out of schools across the country.

Kurt Vonnegut was big in the alternative comedy scene. It was a while there for about 18 months to two years where was big For an alternative comic to tag a joke with and so it goes and so it goes.

And I used to always think like, you know, there's a difference between being Kurt Vonnegut and quoting Kurt Vonnegut.

Yeah, that's the theme in Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse-Five

Where the protagonist is in his backyard and he's lifted up by aliens which I always want to have happen to me when I go into anybody's backyard and I look up I want to be abducted by aliens

And he can see his entire timeline from birth to death and he can access any point in that timeline

In Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five that time travel scenario is what you're describing, right? Because in it his entire time he's picked up by aliens and he lives in a cage an alien zoo but it doesn't matter to him because he still has access to his entire life's timeline and when he's describing this or they describe it to him, he said, when will I die? You're always dying. When was I born? You're always being born. When did I go to college? You're always going to college.

And by the way, that's also what happened in the story Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, which is a time travel story on top of being a World War II story.

But his, and I think Kurt Vonnegut got it right. Correct me if I'm wrong, Brian. He just described your life is always there. You're always being born. You're always dying. You're always in school. You're always in love.

And you just rejoin where you were on that timeline and relive that.

Kurt Vonnegut's novel, Slaughterhouse-Five, which ostensibly takes place at the end of the Second World War, and there are other sort of historical details I won't get into.

What I was most intrigued by is the time travel that goes on in that.

So what happens is the lead protagonist gets abducted by aliens, gets put in a cage, and that sounds bad, but they said, no, you're still there, you're still being born, you're still dying.

And they went outside of his timeline.

So he would sit there and daydream, but by daydreaming he was living his life, and he could relive his life multiple ways and in multiple times.

So, for example, in Kurt Vonnegut's novel, Slaughterhouse-Five, that involves cleanup efforts in Dresden after the bombing of Dresden in the Second World War. Okay, fine. But the rest of the book folded into that is the encounter that the protagonist has with space aliens.

And he has access to the fourth dimension in doing so, where he sees his entire life all at once. He's always being born, he's always dying, he's always living it out in between.

Who's the guy who wrote Slaughterhouse-Five?

I think it was Kurt Vonnegut

In one of his novels He said, I'm paraphrasing This is the last sentence ever spoken by humans It'll be one scientist speaking to the other saying Let's try it the other way

The books good too.

It's a it's it's a pivotal part of the plot the old lazy.

things like Lord of the Flies for example, certain books like Slowhouse Five, exactly books that are a little edgy potentially or have some other lore kind of associated with them.

certain books like Slowhouse Five,

certain ones that others, maybe we're a little controversial, things like Slowhouse Five, exactly books that are a little edgy potentially or have some other lore kind of associated with them.

I think Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut was banned, Native Sun by Richard Wright.

There's an amazing story about Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph heller who wrote catch 22 and slaughterhouse five they're at the party this billionaire and Vonnegut is teasing heller and he says this billionaire that whose house were at he made more money this week than your book will make it its entire light.

Heller says but I have something that he doesn't have. Vonnegut says what's that and heller says I have some idea of what enough is he says I have enough this idea of enough is so powerful.

There's an amazing story about Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller who wrote Catch 22 and Slotter House 5. They're at the party of this billionaire.

I would not only consult with a book that I've mentioned before, Adventures in the Screen Trade by William Goldman, but also would turn to sometimes Breakfast of Champions or Slaughterhouse-Five and just read a passage or two.

but also would turn to sometimes Breakfast of Champions or Slaughterhouse-Five and just read a passage or two.