Unpopular Opinion: Slaughterhouse-Five is a Bad Novel

Randal Eldon Greene
5 min readMay 16, 2021

Unpopular Opinion: Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five is a bad novel. While taste is subjective when it comes to classics of all stripes, I found Slaughterhouse to be littered with problems from start to finish, from form to content.

The novel is the story of a man who unwillingly begins jumping through time. Well, sort of. The story of Billy Pilgrim, WWII veteran and…

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Randal Eldon Greene

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