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So you haven't read Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut? Then pull up a seat as we dive into a sci-fi, time-traveling, autobiographical, post-modern, anti-war classic. One that centers on a WWII ...
Slaughterhouse-Five was banned from Oakland County, Michigan, public schools in 1972. The circuit judge there accused the novel of being “depraved, immoral, psychotic, vulgar, and anti-Christian.” ...
I read Slaughterhouse-Five for the first time the same way you probably did: in my 10th-grade English class, as part of a unit on motifs or something. Dutifully, I underlined the famous phrase ...
"Slaughterhouse-Five" is widely regarded as an American classic and one of the most well-known war novels, but it’s also deeply irreverent and often profane.
Slaughterhouse-Five depicts the firebombing of Dresden by Allied warplanes in 1945. The city was reduced to rubble. More than 20,000 civilians were killed. Author Interviews ...
Two books — "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut and "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini — were on Tuesday's agenda, with the board set to vote on whether or not to remove the books from ...
Though Brevard's school board spent less than a minute on the topic when it came time to vote, the discussion of book bans dominated public comment during Tuesday's board meeting. Two books ...