Question about Slaughterhouse V

I've heard a lot of people say that this book changed their lives or completely transformed their outlook on life. Did any of you have this experience or do you know anyone who did? What is it about this book that makes people feel that way? I read it, enjoyed it and thought it was quite funny but I didn't really find it to be all that profound or life altering. Maybe I'm missing something.

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It was an okay book, not my favorite of his. I think the horrific destruction of Dresden by allied forces might have blown some suburban kid's minds. The shock of finding out USA is not #1 is kind of like finding out Santa isn't real.

Kurt Vonnegut was a formative author in my reading career. The exact content or plot of his books may not have influenced me as much as his style and subjects have, but he was nonetheless influential to me for being so seminal. I imagine this is similar to what a lot of people experience with him. But then again, to some, and I don't think this is exactly worth mocking, something as simple as 'so it goes' can be pretty life affirming.

To add, I am more precious of Car's Cradle than anything else of his. Vonnegut is an incredibly empathetic writer, and his books are full of sardonic sympathy. His writing is bleak enough to resonate with any cynic, but so humanistic that it's difficult to not feel a flitter of something good amongst the fatalistic, sad world of his books and carrying it out into the similar parts of real life which make being a cynic so damn natural sometimes.

Kurt Vonnegut was a significant soul, in my world.

i could see how the idea of life as a mountain range instead of linear time could be very transformative to people. personally I don't like that view because I think it understates personal ability in the present to influence the future, but i could see how someone would like it

It affects you in a way only juvenilia can. It isn't very good

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Because they're redditors who don't know better literature. If you only consume shit, the moment you find something that's slightly better than shit you'll claim that it changed your life.

Interesting take. Thanks for sharing user.

it's a bad book and people who worship it are dumb
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