content: I don't know what I was thinking when I started this book. I had heard it was strange, and it is definitely that, but I guess I expected more from all that I had heard. It was almost as if it was strange just for the sake of being strange. Billy Pilgrim was insipid and stupid. I saw no point in his being "unstuck" in time and the addition of the Tralfamadorians.I have often heard this book compared to Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. Know I will cringe whenever I hear that. The only similarity between the two is that they are about WWII. Catch-22 is a good book that uses hyperbole and silliness successfully. Slaughterhouse-five is just inane.