Slaughter House Five. so it goes Events drive us over the edge, things happen and we grasp for some miniscule amount of sanity and use it for survival. Billy Pilgrim a veteran of WWII, a father and prominent business man, also, he's been abducted by Aliens and travels through time. Billy is a survior of the Dresdan bombing of 1944. Dresdan was an open city in Germany considered safe enough for some sort of regular exsistence in the midst of the henious happenings, POWs, like Billy, were detained there for safety purposes. All is fair in love and war......England and the US damned and determined to end the fucking war, bomb the living shit out of Dresdan and Billy, a chaplains assistant, see's the devastating results, so it goes. The reader is flipped through time like a ragdoll, never knowing which decade Billy will end up. The endless time hopping helps the reader understand Pilgrim's inner agnst and psyche, making one question their own. Alien theology is given to us through Billy's narration and it makes sense, Time is Time, unchangable, ever inert. I've tried to grasp the meaning of this anti-war story and came away with....escapism is the only route to sanity. War will always happen, life and death occurs daily and we are left with only facts and our vast imaginations to cope with it all. The Aliens tell Billy to focus on the pretty stuff, the good he experiences and try not to focus on the negative and bad stuff he experiences, as it stifles growth of people, and more importantly...of civilizations. Slaughter House Five is humerous, sad and gauranteed good read, it took about a day to read it and it's definately time well spent.