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I had previously read Vonnegut's Sirens of Titan and Breakfast of Champions and didn't like either. I don't like it when main characters get tortured without reason or meaning. Upon hearing that his Slaughterhouse-Five concerned the bombing of Dresden, I decided to give it a try.

I thoroughly enjoyed it. In the context of a war, writing about meaningless tortures and deaths makes perfect sense. The meandering self-referential wit that I found so tiring in Champions worked well in Slaughterhouse, serving as a foil to the horrors of war.