So, I decided not to read "A Brave New World" at this point - just randomly picked up a small book called "The Slaughterhouse 5" yesterday afternoon - and finished it tonight.
A book about the post-war life of Billy Pilgrim after being a POW which included time in Dresden, where they were kept in an old slaughterhouse.
A very quick read, the author speaks of time travel, aliens, war, and the failure of the mind throughout tramatic events. The author seems obsessed with terror of old age and how he "got here", through comments by minor characters throughout the book.
Several lines that I liked in this book: "So it goes". After everything.
And, "I could carve a better man out of a banana".
A little on the crazy side, but opened up a rather distant view of war and escape and post-war America.
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