Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse Five"

Decided to try reading something American for once: downloaded Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five and Didion's Vintage Didion. Started with Slaughter: I'm at roughly 50%. Readable but slow-reading. Somewhat flat, IMHO, though supposedly that's purposeful. I remember liking the story and language of Mother Night more. I wanted to feel the horror of Dresden. I feel more vaudeville than horror. I remember feeling more horror and poetry (is that even the right word?) in reading Sebald's On the Natural History of Destruction. So it goes.

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From Slaughter:

Rosewater said an interesting thing to Billy one time about a book that wasn't science fiction. He said that everything there was to know about life was in The Brothers Karamazov, by Feodor Dostoevsky. "But that isn't enough any more," said Rosewater.