I really enjoyed reading this book. I won't go as far as my friend Maggie and say it's my favorite book, but it really was interesting. I think I'd like to read some more Vonnegut now.
I found this book to be at once deeply serious and very funny. One of my favorite quotes is as follows:
Billy wasn't Catholic, even though he grew up with a ghastly crucifix on the wall. His father had no religion. His mother was a substitute organist for several churches around town. She took Billy with her whenever she played, taught him to play a little, too. She said she was going to join a church as soon as she decided which one was right.
She never did decide. She did develop a terrific hankering for a crucifix, though. And she bought one from a Santa Fe gift shop during a trip the little family made out West during the Great Depression. Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
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