Works by Kurt Vonnegut (Book Guide)

Source: Wikipedia. Commentary (works not included). Pages: 32. Chapters: Books by Kurt Vonnegut, Novels by Kurt Vonnegut, Short stories by Kurt Vonnegut, Short story collections by Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five, Player Piano, The Sirens of Titan, Welcome to the Monkey House, Harrison Bergeron, Mother Night, Galápagos, Bluebeard, Breakfast of Champions, EPICAC, Slapstick, Hocus Pocus, Timequake, 2BR02B, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons, Kurt Vonnegut bibliography, Palm Sunday, Deadeye Dick, A Man Without a Country, Report on the Barnhouse Effect, Bagombo Snuff Box, Fates Worse than Death, Jailbird, Miss Temptation, Armageddon in Retrospect, Canary in a Cathouse, All the King's Horses, Look at the Birdie, Who Am I This Time?, While Mortals Sleep, Deer in the Works, God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Next Door. Excerpt: Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death (1969) is a science fiction novel by Kurt Vonnegut about World War II experiences and journeys through time of a soldier called Billy Pilgrim. Chaplain's Assistant Billy Pilgrim is a disoriented, fatalistic, and ill-trained American soldier. He does not like wars and he is captured by the Germans during the Battle of the Bulge. The Germans put Billy and his fellow prisoners in a disused slaughterhouse (although there are animal carcasses hanging in the underground shelter) in Dresden. Their building is known as "Slaughterhouse number 5". The POWs and German guards alike hide in a deep cellar; because of their safe hiding place, they are some of the few survivors of the city-destroying firestorm during the Bombing of Dresden in World War II. Billy has come "unstuck in time" and experiences past and future events out of sequence and repetitively, following a nonlinear narrative. He is kidnapped by extraterrestrial aliens from the planet Tralfamadore (. They exhibit him in a zoo with B-movie starlet Montana Wildhack as his mate. The Tralfamadorians, who can see in four dimensions, have already seen every instant of their lives. They say they cannot choose to change anything about their fates, but can choose to concentrate upon any moment in their lives, and Billy becomes convinced of the veracity of their theories. As Billy travels-or believes he travels-forward and backward in time, he relives occasions of his life, real and fantasy. He spends time on Tralfamadore, in Dresden, in the War, walking in deep snow before his German capture, in his mundane post-war married life in the U.S.A. of the 1950s and early 1960s, and in the moment of his murder by Lazzaro. Billy's death is the consequence of a string of events. Before the Germans capture Billy, he meets Roland Weary, a jingoist character and bully, just out of childhood like Billy, who constantly chastises him for his lack of enthusiasm toward w