First post of a book... and it'll premiere in style.
Slaughterhouse-Five, written by Kurt Vonnegut.
Slaughterhouse-Five, written by Kurt Vonnegut.
It was last week I gess that I finished reading his amazing book. How did I find out about it? Through Lost. Y'know, in this show there're lots of mentions about books that somehow is connected to the story of Lost. Slaughterhouse-Five is one of them. Obviously the book being mentioned on Lost wasn't enough reason for me to buy it and read it; specially coz I'm not a big reader - or at least I wasn't - and I won't waste time reading something I don't find interesting.
There are many themes on Lost, but for me, the one that really interests me is the time thing, and this is also the reason that drawn me to Slaughterhouse-Five.
It's the story of a guy named Billy Pilgrim. He's an ordinary guy, visiting moments of his life in his state of 'unstuck in time'. His conscious travells through time, [Desmond much?] taking him to the times he was at World War II and presentiated the destruction of Dresden, in Germany. The author, Kurt Vonnegut, was in Germany at that moment, which also makes the book not entirely about someone else, but there are many things of Vonnegut... including him as himself telling the story and even at some points meeting with Billy Pilgrim, the main character on the book.
For me, the highest point on the book, is the writing. He describes tragedies, some unbeliavable things and his comment is simply 'so it goes'. Seeing as it's a tragedy, supposedly you should feel bad about it... maybe you do, but you can't help but laugh as well. Well, at least I couldn't, lol. I absolutelly love sarcasm, dark and inteligent humour, so at some points I indeed laughed my ass off.
Billy, for instance, is one fucked up dude. He is whimpy and whinny and all bad things happens to him. Including being abducted and taken to Trafalmadore, where he learns to 'see' through time. Acknowledging that what happened before, will keep happening at that moment. That a moment gone is not necessarily a moment lost, it can be relieved as much as... forever.
Also that there's no such thing as free will. Things will happen if they're meant to happen, and nothing can change that. So Billy was laid back, acknowledging as well how, when, and even why he was going to die, so he laughed it off, saying if happened before, will happen again and will keep hapenning regardless.
I know, it's a bit confusing, but the book is not, believe me. It's one hell of a book. I searched around and found out that it was made a movie about the book. [the book was released in 1969, the movie is from 1972]. I've downloaded, but I haven't watched it yet... I dunno if it'll be as interesting as the book, but might be worth watching... and one day I'll do it, hahaha.
Oh, the priest flew with balloons and ended up going to the ocean. The balloons were found. He was not.
So it goes.
There are many themes on Lost, but for me, the one that really interests me is the time thing, and this is also the reason that drawn me to Slaughterhouse-Five.
It's the story of a guy named Billy Pilgrim. He's an ordinary guy, visiting moments of his life in his state of 'unstuck in time'. His conscious travells through time, [Desmond much?] taking him to the times he was at World War II and presentiated the destruction of Dresden, in Germany. The author, Kurt Vonnegut, was in Germany at that moment, which also makes the book not entirely about someone else, but there are many things of Vonnegut... including him as himself telling the story and even at some points meeting with Billy Pilgrim, the main character on the book.
For me, the highest point on the book, is the writing. He describes tragedies, some unbeliavable things and his comment is simply 'so it goes'. Seeing as it's a tragedy, supposedly you should feel bad about it... maybe you do, but you can't help but laugh as well. Well, at least I couldn't, lol. I absolutelly love sarcasm, dark and inteligent humour, so at some points I indeed laughed my ass off.
Billy, for instance, is one fucked up dude. He is whimpy and whinny and all bad things happens to him. Including being abducted and taken to Trafalmadore, where he learns to 'see' through time. Acknowledging that what happened before, will keep happening at that moment. That a moment gone is not necessarily a moment lost, it can be relieved as much as... forever.
Also that there's no such thing as free will. Things will happen if they're meant to happen, and nothing can change that. So Billy was laid back, acknowledging as well how, when, and even why he was going to die, so he laughed it off, saying if happened before, will happen again and will keep hapenning regardless.
I know, it's a bit confusing, but the book is not, believe me. It's one hell of a book. I searched around and found out that it was made a movie about the book. [the book was released in 1969, the movie is from 1972]. I've downloaded, but I haven't watched it yet... I dunno if it'll be as interesting as the book, but might be worth watching... and one day I'll do it, hahaha.
Oh, the priest flew with balloons and ended up going to the ocean. The balloons were found. He was not.
So it goes.
1 comments:
Tututuuuuia, oh fica rindo de mim por causa do 'Lenny' não tá? hahaha
Oh, pra socar cores diferentes no trem do seu toba é só clicar no link 'personalizar' q fica logo acima do link se socar videos nos blogs etc.
Bjos Tutuia
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