Slaughterhouse Five

Slaughterhouse Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
read: approximately 1997
Time 100 Novels, Modern Library #18, Guardian 1000 Novels

I read this about the same time as Catch-22; I can't remember which of these anti-war, part-comedy, part-serious, ultimately horrifying, terrific books I read first.  When I went to college, I listed Slaughterhouse Five as one of my favorite books; I was paired with a roommate who had listed Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle.

Vonnegut is kind of a gateway high literary author for dorks like me who read a lot of science fiction.  I read this junior or senior year of high school and really enjoyed it at a time when I was reading mostly Star Wars novels.