a headstone imagined by the character in the book reads "everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt"

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   #2024PtoothfishBookReviews

   Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse 5, or The Children's Crusade. A duty dance with death.

   A re(re)-read i started on the flight to Auckland last week while i was sulking about the loss of the other paperback I was reading about war & time-travel.
   Well anyway I had forgotten how cut-up the storytelling was with 4th-wall breaks from the author. It's very quirky & effective (if you care for KV's opinions on this or that, which I do)

   oh it's kurt's birthday! so it goes