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Slaughter-House Five (75%)

American pow as "inferior" to British pows who keep up form better . . . Jesus as a "bum" who turned out to be "well-connected."  Message of Christianity--don't mess with us . . . America simultaneously richest country on earth yet filled with poor people who are taught to hate themselves . . . Dresden as a city that will never be bombed because it produces no munitions . . .

Some moving sections, some very funny sections, some sections that just don't work.

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