I came into this thinking it would be boring, and did it just because I had to know the book for school, but I genuinely enjoyed listening to this, thank you!
Thank you for reading the book. I struggle reading in my head, due to me not taking in the knowledge of the words. I find myself reading words and just that. Also, my mouth gets dry reading aloud and I find myself taking sips every half a page. You are a fantastic reader.
It's 4:05 in the morning Monday morning April 16th and I just finished listening to the whole slaughter house five I started at 8 p.m. a beautiful story thank you for sharing this with all of us
Like so many others I think you for making these videos. I had to read this for a college literature class and with this playing in the background at 2x speed to help me focus as I read, everything went much quicker and went well.
An intriguing anti war novel, very much of it's time (Vietnam). It's a book that I've always promised myself to read, but for a variety of reasons have never got round to. So thank you for this very well read and engaging audio version.
Thank you for this. The book was great and you’re reading was very well done. I must admit That I did go look for The next chapter before realizing that the whole story was complete.
you did an impeccable job at this book I'm so thankful that you placed this on the public internet for school kids (like me) to read and better understand the novel !!!! thank you so much!!!
I read the book 40 yrs ago. When I listened to it today, it all came flooding back. I read a lot of Vonnegut back then but none of it stuck with me like this one. This is his only semibiographical book and the subject matter that is biographical undoubtedly resulted in years of PTSD (unstuck in time) and depression. He had been writing successful books for over 15 yrs before he tackled this one and stated that it was cathartic for him. All of his books have layers of serious themes but this one has such direct personal meaning for him and it shows.
I did make my own little chart to reference Billy's time traveling. It's interesting to me how the events of the war in the past are told chronologically, starting with the march and ending after Dresden (SIG) while events in the future are much more muddled. I also hate to do it but the narrative provides plenty of ammo for interpreting it as "this is all brain damage" although I feel like this goes against the spirit of the narrative. But, so I can write it and not think about it, here is the timeline. 1922, Billy is born. We see him in the war in 1944 when, after a long march, he had his first episode of dissociation. Sometime in 1944 as a prisoner of war, Billy had a supposed laughing fit and had some kind of episode that required he be restrained and sedated; he was unconscious as someone red him a book of war stories. He was discharged from the army after Dresden in early 1945. In 1948, he voluntarily checked himself into a mental hospital because of undiagnosed post-traumatic stress causing him to cry constantly when alone. He recovered and was discharged, but it was during this stay that Billy found Trout's science fiction novels that had themes that Billy would later take as fact - time travel, aliens, and skepticism of religion. At his anniversary party Billy had a violent flashback to the war that was mistaken for a heart attack (and may or may not have been a medical event too). Afterwards, 1967, he had his alien abduction experience. 1968 was the crash/head trauma/loss of Billy's wife, and while comatose, was read to about the Americans bombing Japan. After this, he went to NY and spoke on the news about his abduction, bringing us to present day where his daughter is caring for/lecturing Billy. Billy predicts his date of death to be February 13, 1976. He says in the book that Dresden was destroyed on February 13, 1945.
I had forgotten this book was ostensibly science fiction by the time I started listening to this audiobook, but now I don't agree that it is.. it's a personal, fictional account of true tragedy and experienced horror
I came into this thinking it would be boring, and did it just because I had to know the book for school, but I genuinely enjoyed listening to this, thank you!
Thank you for reading the book. I struggle reading in my head, due to me not taking in the knowledge of the words. I find myself reading words and just that. Also, my mouth gets dry reading aloud and I find myself taking sips every half a page. You are a fantastic reader.
It's 4:05 in the morning Monday morning April 16th and I just finished listening to the whole slaughter house five I started at 8 p.m. a beautiful story thank you for sharing this with all of us
you should have watched it at 2x speed i finished in 2 hours and 40 mins
@@TRILLIONDOLLAEXTREME some things shouldn’t be rushed
It's 3:24 in the morning and I just finished listening to this book. Am confused.
Thank you again. What an impressive book. Read beautifully. Poe-ti-weet...
Words cannot express my gratitude. We need more people like you!
So it goes
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Like so many others I think you for making these videos. I had to read this for a college literature class and with this playing in the background at 2x speed to help me focus as I read, everything went much quicker and went well.
An intriguing anti war novel, very much of it's time (Vietnam). It's a book that I've always promised myself to read, but for a variety of reasons have never got round to. So thank you for this very well read and engaging audio version.
excellent! to whomever did the reading out loud, you did an amazing job. thank you
Thank you for this. The book was great and you’re reading was very well done. I must admit That I did go look for The next chapter before realizing that the whole story was complete.
thank you so much! this was a big help and I loved the reading very interesting
you did an impeccable job at this book I'm so thankful that you placed this on the public internet for school kids (like me) to read and better understand the novel !!!! thank you so much!!!
Thank you very much for the reading. I feel so obliged.
This was the first audiobook I ever listened to. Thank you for putting it out here.
Thank you so much, i had to read this book for AP in 2 days and thanks to your reading i finished it in one day.
I read the book 40 yrs ago. When I listened to it today, it all came flooding back. I read a lot of Vonnegut back then but none of it stuck with me like this one. This is his only semibiographical book and the subject matter that is biographical undoubtedly resulted in years of PTSD (unstuck in time) and depression. He had been writing successful books for over 15 yrs before he tackled this one and stated that it was cathartic for him. All of his books have layers of serious themes but this one has such direct personal meaning for him and it shows.
I know it has been years since you recorded this video, it was a wild ride for me but I very much enjoyed it, Thanks so very much!
Thank you !!!
Thanks for the great post. Love the book and the reading of it
that you so much for having an audio on this book. you really helped me pass my English book report🧍🏻♀️👏🏻
This was such a big help thanks!
Thanks, I really appreciate it!
Extremely moving. Thank you again.
I did make my own little chart to reference Billy's time traveling. It's interesting to me how the events of the war in the past are told chronologically, starting with the march and ending after Dresden (SIG) while events in the future are much more muddled. I also hate to do it but the narrative provides plenty of ammo for interpreting it as "this is all brain damage" although I feel like this goes against the spirit of the narrative. But, so I can write it and not think about it, here is the timeline.
1922, Billy is born. We see him in the war in 1944 when, after a long march, he had his first episode of dissociation. Sometime in 1944 as a prisoner of war, Billy had a supposed laughing fit and had some kind of episode that required he be restrained and sedated; he was unconscious as someone red him a book of war stories. He was discharged from the army after Dresden in early 1945. In 1948, he voluntarily checked himself into a mental hospital because of undiagnosed post-traumatic stress causing him to cry constantly when alone. He recovered and was discharged, but it was during this stay that Billy found Trout's science fiction novels that had themes that Billy would later take as fact - time travel, aliens, and skepticism of religion. At his anniversary party Billy had a violent flashback to the war that was mistaken for a heart attack (and may or may not have been a medical event too). Afterwards, 1967, he had his alien abduction experience. 1968 was the crash/head trauma/loss of Billy's wife, and while comatose, was read to about the Americans bombing Japan. After this, he went to NY and spoke on the news about his abduction, bringing us to present day where his daughter is caring for/lecturing Billy.
Billy predicts his date of death to be February 13, 1976. He says in the book that Dresden was destroyed on February 13, 1945.
Nice job, thanks for recording it
Extraordinary book. Thank you
went from dreading reading this to somewhat enjoying it due to the audiobook, I also took notice to the fact that there are no ads, thank you reader
thanks! ads are evil and poison our society with negativity.
@@VarVarBinks Based as fuck
You are the best narrator ever. Take a bow.🙏🏻❤
I loved this book thank you so much for the read
i remembered it being good but didn't remember it being so sad
I had forgotten this book was ostensibly science fiction by the time I started listening to this audiobook, but now I don't agree that it is.. it's a personal, fictional account of true tragedy and experienced horror
Best audio book voice acting I've heard! Wish me luck on my final heh
good luck!
finished reading at 1:11 am june 7th, great book
Thank you
Just here to add a 'thank you' to the voices below me. Cheers x
near perfect book
Why does that category in the description say “gaming”?
so you can listen to this while gaming (that's what I did)
thank u
For being something I had to read for school this actually wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be.
Here, where a thousand
captains,
swore grand conquest . . .
Tall Grass, their monuments.
-Basho
This was a good book
I had to repeat some parts of the story a lot of words I didn't know thank God for Google
We made it
pooteeweet 🐦⬛
poootey wheat
you butchered Māori
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