Slaughter House Five

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Slaughterhouse-FiveSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Umm...umm... That's all I could come up with. I read it on a trip where I literally had 3 days to do nothing. Under those circumstances, I found it easy to read, and well-written (Kurt Vonnegut, duh).


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