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Title: cynical and misanthropic
Review: This was the most anti-human book that I've read since Gulliver's Travels. Vonnegut's cynicism and apathy are understandable considering the atrocities that he witnessed during the war, and I imagine writing the book was a cathartic experience for him, but other than that, there's not much to be gained from this novel.Vonnegut's shell-shocked brain appears incapable of distinguishing between the Germans who were injecting dye into women's and children's eyes and rendering them into soap and candles and the Allied soldiers that sacrificed their lives trying to stop them.His main points seem to be:1. War is stupid.2. People are stupid.3. Life is meaningless.4. There's nothing any of us can do about it.5. So, try not to think about the bad things in your life and just think happy thoughts.If this is your life's philosophy, you will also consider this a "brilliant" work.
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