Have I ever mentioned here that Slaughterhouse-Five is my favorite all time book? Well it is. Probably because when I first read it as a teenager I really found the whole dark humor, meta-fiction, ironic tone thing right up my alley. Plus it has time travel and space aliens while still being considered serious literature. How could I not love it? And got me thinking how most people's favorites are formed before they hit their thirties. I'm pretty sure that nothing I read during this list project will dethrone this as my favorite book in the same way that I know my favorite superhero movie will always be the 1989 Batman. Why? Because I saw that movie when I was 13...Now I'm not sure if I thought this the last time I read it... probably not... but on this read through it really seems like the novel is about PTSD and you know maybe the Tralfamadorians aren't actually real. I think I always took it at face value... it was after all nominated for a Nebula and a Hugo. But I think we're dealing with an unreliable third person narration here which is I'm guessing fairly rare. Really, if someone with a history of mental problems tells you that they were abducted by aliens and lives life non-linearly would you really believe them? Especially when that life is always going back to the most traumatic events in that person's life? So yep, still my favorite book A+. Also, The Brothers Karamazov are mentioned.
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