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Title: Could have skipped it and read something else
Review: While I perhaps understood the overall point of the novel (i.e. that science may be truth but it can and will destroy man; whereas, a system of bliefs such as Bokonism allows man to live in harmony even if this peace and harmony is built on harmless untruths), I think Vonnegut could have done a better job at telling the story. The story "bounced around" a bit too much for me and as a reader, I did not know what to focus on, and after a while, did not care. Unlike Slaughterhouse Five, I did not find this book at all funny (was it supposed to be?) although I suspect that Vonnegut intended the reader to take humor in the medical condition known as midgetism. (FAIL!) I've read worse books, to be sure; nevetheless, I could have left this one on my shelf.
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