Review - Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five

In the history of anti-war novels Slaughterhouse Five seems to be the least offensive. I know that makes it seem as if I’m damning the book with faint praise, but that is far from the intention. Some novels take horror to new heights, while others take irony to new depths, but Slaughterhouse does neither, instead laying out war and death as an inevitability none of us can escape. It’s that idea I found most compelling while reading this all-to-brief account. Vonnegut was apparently captured d

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