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. * 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.