Read it in high school. Didn't understand a single thing about it. Got a D on my book report ("Poorly Written" per my English Teacher). In the hilarious Rodney Dangerfield movie, "Back to School," Rodney hires Kurt Vonnegut to write his book report on S-House 5. The teacher fails him and comments, "You don't know a damn thing about Vonnegut." An irate Dangerfield calls Vonnegut and chews him out. The conversation ends with dangerfield screaming, "F--k Me! No, F--k You." P.S. - Tried reading Slapstick by Vonnegut. That one made no sense to me either. P.P.S. - Hey English Teacher -- I have a published book. How many freakin' books you write.

One of a kind. It's a great book to unlock secrets, and solve puzzles. I like his style of criticism, because it wasn't obvious.

Terrific book. Since there is a decided lack of vulgarity or explicit sex in here, I am going to assume that it was challenged because it was antiwar. Well, it WAS written by someone who actually fought in the second world war, so he would know how pointlessly brutal war actually is. The powers that be are uneasy with anyone spreading the rumour that war is not all glory and comradery and heroism. It kind of makes joining the army an unattractive option when people talk about how dehumanizing war is, about how it irreparably damages people both physically and mentally. And although atrocities were committed by all sides in that campaign, this book actually has the nerve to describe one of America's war crimes, the firebombing of Dresden. Dresden was not at all a military target; there was no industry there that was in aid of the German war effort, not a single base or ammunition dump. The Americans and British targeted this entirely civilian city, one of the most beautiful and historic in Europe, for annihilation. The heat from the firebombing melted glass and concrete, and not a single living thing was found throughout a large part of the city. The Germans were responsible for some of the most appalling atrocities of the 20th century, but nobody who fought that war was entirely innocent. Vonnegut's crime, I guess, was telling it like it was.