This is getting old....#4

“Billy opened his mouth, and out came a deep, resonant tone. His voice was a gorgeous instrument. it told jokes which brought down the house. It grew serious, told jokes again, and ended on a note of humility. The explanation was this: Billy had taken a course in public speaking.

 And then he was back in the bed of the frozen creek again. Roland Weary was about to beat the living shit out of him.

Weary was filled with a tragic wrath. He had been ditched again. He stuffed his pistol into its holster. He slipped his knife into its scabbard. Its triangular blade and blood gutters on all three faces. And then he shook Billy hard, rattled his skeleton, slammed him against a bank.

Weary barked and whimpered through his layers of scarf from home. He spoke unintelligibly of the sacrifices he had made on Billy's behalf. He dilated upon the piety and heroism of "The Three Musketeers," portrayed, in the most glowing and impassionate hues, their virtue and magnanimity, the imperishable honor they acquired for themselves, and the great services they rendered to Christianity." -pg. 50-51 in "Slaughter House-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

This little excerpt from my book shows just how colorful and senseful Vonnegut writes and how it just wraps you in and make you want to read the book more and more with his beutiful and precise depictions of every little detail.

If I placed Billy Pilgrim in our world today, i believe that he would not fare very well because he had a hard enough time dealing with his world so many years ago, and alot has changed since then. He wouldent be accepted by most people and be considered a nut job. And honestly he would be utterlty usless for anything thats going to happen in our future. He would be severally confused about whats going on in our world today because our problems are alot different than they used to be back in WWII.

and another post....#3

To be honest if you think about any older war movie(or show,although I dont know of any) were one or two main characters have been in a war and survive you have essentially read my book. The battle-scared warrior that tries to recreate the memories to remember what happened is a very common theme that is actually quite fruitful seeing as how the seem to be able to make movies like this just about every year and still make money on it. Although i cant say that I have seen a movie based on the Dresden bombing, there are a ton of movies out there that have the alcoholic soldier as their main character that is trying everything he can to make sense of the past.

Post of epic proportions #2

One of the characters in my book is named Billy Pilgrim, but i dont know yet whether I love him or hate him yet. He's interesting because he came from litterally nothing as a child to become a very fruitfull optometrist through his father in law after having a nervous colapse and spending time in a veterans hospital and getting treated with shock therapy. " He was a funny looking child who became a funny looking youth- tall and weak, and shaped like a bottle of Coca-cola." This is one of those funny descriptions in this book you want to laugh at but then you remember the gravity of the story. After a life and mind altering plane crash which only Billy had survived i believe Billy wouldent even notice the $100 dollar bill because he is always  muttering to himself and not focused on anything specific.

This picture would represent th confusion that not only this book presents but also the confusion that is created with all of these personality aspects of all of these different characters in the book. All of the characters in this book are more that just one dimensional and take a long hard time to decifer.

#1 of a Series of EPIC Blogs Dude

To be honest i dont have a great reason for choosing this book. Initially i wanted to read either "One Flew Over the Cookoos Nest" or "A Clockwork Orange" but seeing as how those had either been lost or stolen and the closest one in any liberaries around here was in New York i chose this book. But its along the lines of the other books in the sense that its fictional work based on a very true story....the Dresden Bombing during WW2. The author is Kurt Vonnegut, a very good writer from what i have read so far. The title as it indicates is where P.O.W where held, which is where the teller of the story in the book and his friends where once held. And last but not least th cover, its pretty boring so not to much on that.
                                                                                                                            -Thats all folks!