Week 3 of Slaughterhouse Five

We are in week 3 of Slaughterhouse Five.  Folks should be approaching the end of this 288 page book.

I've heard that several members have already completed the book!  This is a much easier read than our first two books were, and is somewhat shorter.  Hopefully everyone who has already finished will still remember the book during the discussion :-)

I read this one on Kindle, and about halfway through started using the highlight and notes features to record thoughts I had while reading.  The novel is somewhat disjointed as well, so I'm going back and rereading the first half or so.  I feel there are associations I missed in the early part of the book, perhaps I will pick up on some of those in the reread.

Memory is an interesting thing.  I was talking to Jeremy about the club and the book. He said he had read Slaughterhouse Five in High School, but did not remember the Tralfamadorians! One of my favorite science fiction novels is Robert Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land", in which one of my favorite parts was the church set up by the main character as a means of disposing of his wealth, by simply placing piles of cash in the tithing box, and letting folks take what they need.  However, so many people were tithing into the church, his wealth was growing instead.

Unfortunately, when I reread that novel a few years ago, that didn't actually happen in the book! If I were a good conspiracy theorist who had read 1984, I might think Newspeak had destroyed the original novel with the church-sponsored socialism subplot in it, and replaced it with a less heretical (huh?) rendition.  Then I would start worrying about whether the books we are reading in our group have suffered similar emendations...

Our meeting is scheduled for April 10th, at my house, at 7PM.  I look forward to seeing everyone.