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Slaughterhouse-Five
By Kurt Vonnegut, Ryan North and Albert Monteys
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With Kurt Vonnegut’s seminal anti-war story, Slaughterhouse-Five, Eisner Award-winning writer Ryan North (Unbeatable Squirrel Girl) and Eisner Award-nominated artist Albert Monteys (Universe!) translate a literary classic into comic book form in the tradition of A Wrinkle in Time and Fight Club 2. Billy Pilgrim has read Kilgore Trout and opened a successful optometry business. Billy Pilgrim has built a loving family and witnessed the firebombing of Dresden. Billy Pilgrim has traveled to the planet Tralfamadore and met Kurt Vonnegut. Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time. Slaughterhouse-Five is at once a farcical look at the horror and tragedy of war where children are placed on the frontlines and die (so it goes), and a moving examination of what it means to be a fallible human.
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Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut was a master of contemporary American Literature. His black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America's attention in The Siren's of Titan in 1959 and established him as ""a true artist"" with Cat's Cradle in 1963. He was, as Graham Greene has declared, ""one of the best living American writers.""
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Kind of amazing. There were some scenes I wish they represented in this adaptation. I missed them because it's such a good adaptation, and I imagine it would have been hard to figure out. It's just kind of bonkers. Very much loved it. Just great content. It carries the tone well. It does a great job depicting Billy Pilgrim as having gone so wise and knowledgeable that he looks pretty crazy. Oh, and he might be. So much fun with this.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Phenomenal. I had read the novel before, but this adaptation invoked much more of an understanding.
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