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Slaughterhouse Five (40%)

I'm doing what is becoming my normal read/listen method.  This time, it has been very interesting.  I started reading and found myself supplying the author with a snarky, know-it-all voice that I didn't particularly like.  After reading the first 20% of the book, I listened in the car as I drove out to the golf course.  What a revelation--the audible reader (James Franco) has a much better interpretation of the voice than I had.  In his reading, the tone is somber--mostly--and snarky only occasionally.

Some really great scenes:  the backwards bombing (reminiscent of Time's Arrow by Martin Amis . . . which came first?)  The jumping about in time--which our minds do all the time--is handled deftly for the most part.  I'm not keen on the UFO capture stuff.

I started this book fearful that (after 40 years) I'd hate it.  Hasn't happened, and I don't think it will.

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