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Title: Maybe It WAS Controvesial, A Long Time Ago, Far, Far Away ...
Review: I have heard (and read here) many good things about this book.I was very disappointed.I did not enjoy the "inventive" style the author used to emulate the way he thinks Tralfamadorian books would be written like if they had need of books. It was irritating to read the story with the flow constantly interrupted by stanzas with tenuous relationships to one another. I imagine an author with ADHD and Alzheimer's would find this to be a comfortable writing style.The antiwar aspect of the book reminded me of later MASH and Archie Bunker television shows: heavy handed and preachy. A few two dimensional characters delivering the same message, over and over.Though it had little in the way of flow (Tralfamadorian style), I did enjoy reading the longer uninterrupted text parcels in the book. I will probably read at least one more Kurt Vonnegut book, but I hope it is better than this one.
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