Slaughterhouse Five or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death by Kurt Vonnegut 226 pp.
I first read this Vonnegut classic in the 70s while in high school or college, I don't remember which. Over the years I've read it a couple more times. I was enticed to revisit it, this time on audiobook, after visiting the The National World War II Museum in New Orleans where I found this:
The first thing that came to mind on seeing the display were the words, "Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time" followed by "Poo-tee-weet!" Vonnegut's story is partly based on his experience as a POW during the bombing of Dresden experienced by Billy, the protagonist. That story is mixed with an intriguing science fiction tale where Billy is kept in a sort of zoo on the planet Tralfamadore to mate with a former porn star for the entertainment of the Tralfamadorans. Only Vonnegut could take such disparate plot lines and merge them to make a whole story. It will always be a favorite of mine.
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