Slaughterhouse Five or the Children's Crusade by Kurt Vonnegut, spoiler free
Slaughterhouse Five or the Children's Crusade (spoiler free). Despite "majoring"* in literature in high school, I realized that they are many classics that I did not read. In my quest of self love at a time when I felt more desperate than ever, I wanted to spend some time again for myself and doing again things that I loved before but could not do anymore. As I said before, one of those was reading. I then started to search here and there for books and came across Slaughterhouse Five. I had heard of it some years before, when I was looking at war related works. Kurt Vonnegut is an author, but also one of the seven American soldiers who survived the bombing at Dresden in 1945 during World War II. This episode, and all the events he experienced during the war, influenced a lot his work. Slaughterhouse Five is considered one the best works of the 20th century and put Kurt Vonnegut to fame. The story and thoughts. As my thoughts are tangled with the story, I'm going to m...