content: I originally read Slaughterhouse-Five back in high school, it was classified as science fiction. I hated it then because I didn't get it.After time discovering that history is not about memorizing dates but what happened and learning about the firebombing of Dresden, Germany, I returned to Slaughterhouse-Five for a new look. Billy Pilgrim is an absurd protagonist. He isn't manly or a knight in shining armor, he's an infantry man taken prisoner and a witness to a massacre that out did the atomic bombs.Forget that Billy comes unstuck in time and his alien abduction, what matters is that Kurt Vonnegut makes an event that is so overwhelming human and knowable - not understandable.Put aside any expectations about how a book should read and slip into this novel that makes history come alive on the level of one man's point of view.And so it goes.