My first impressions of this book are a huge sigh of relief. After reading Mumbo Jumbo I have to say that this style of clear sentence structure will not be taken for granted. I can truly say that I enjoy reading this book. It's topic is one of very serious ramifications but at the same time Vonnegut mixes in humor which I appreciate. One thing I did notice is the repetition of things in the novel. When ever Vonnegut wrote "I am Yon Yonsin from Wisconsin" I was immediately sent back into the novel Fight Club in the way that the narrator often repeats "I am Jacks ____". Along with this comes the "So it goes" every time somebody dies.
Vonnegut's connection with history is very interesting. On the very cover page there is a veritable cornucopia of contradiction. He goes straight from talking about the validity of his novels to UFO's. The narrator seems to want to represent the war as truly as he can but does not want to make any claims of 100% accuracy. This puts Vonnegut in a comfortable position because nobody is going to be questioning every word he writes but at the same time the novel will have much more weight than a normal work of fiction; "he was there". I also want to note the strange way that Vonnegut keeps on saying the novel that we are reading is crappy and a flop. It is very strange to read about the very book you are reading as being an enormous failure when you know for a fact that it is not. These various things about the book have me very excited to read on, and I hope that it lives up to it's introduction.
Vonnegut's connection with history is very interesting. On the very cover page there is a veritable cornucopia of contradiction. He goes straight from talking about the validity of his novels to UFO's. The narrator seems to want to represent the war as truly as he can but does not want to make any claims of 100% accuracy. This puts Vonnegut in a comfortable position because nobody is going to be questioning every word he writes but at the same time the novel will have much more weight than a normal work of fiction; "he was there". I also want to note the strange way that Vonnegut keeps on saying the novel that we are reading is crappy and a flop. It is very strange to read about the very book you are reading as being an enormous failure when you know for a fact that it is not. These various things about the book have me very excited to read on, and I hope that it lives up to it's introduction.
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