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Book Title: Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Pages:118-148 since last week; 148 since semester

In the middle of the book, Billy Pilgrim time travels to the end of his life -- he's murdered by an old crazed Lazzaro who's kept his promise since the war, but shortly after he experiences death, he time travels back into his past where he is finally arriving in the city of Dresden.

So far, I think this book is pretty cool because it's unlike anything I've ever read before. The whole book has no concrete timeline, it began with just a random moment in Billy's life and it gave away the end of it in the middle of the book. Everything I've ever read has had an introduction, an arising problem, a foreshadowing, a climax, and then an end. This doesn't seem to be the case for Slaughter-House Five. The fact that this book has tried to go out of the norm reminds me of everything anyone stands for today. Everyone wants to be unique and smart and step out of the box to create their own identity, and so I'm kind of wondering if Kurt Vonnegut's uncommon writing style is just comforming to anti-conformity, or if he's a pioneer of change in a world where books are all written the same. Or maybe I just haven't read enough books yet. Personally, I'm liking Vonnegut's style, and I like how things are turning out.