16
Apr
2009
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
I consider myself fortunate in both reading this book as a teenager and not for school. While some literature is arguably best studied closely, often in a classroom setting with lectures, secondary sources, and lit crit (Shakespeare comes to mind here), academia can really suck the life out of some works. Since I have never read Slaughterhouse-Five for school, I don’t know if that is true of it or not, but I’m guessing it is. I think that it would lose its fluidity by being picked apart. At least on a first read.
