It is truly amazing that Vonnegut is able to take such a horrible subject and make it funny enough to want to read about it more than once. His true gift, however, is making the absurdity of war so obvious.
I also still love the concept of getting unstuck in time, but reading it this time, I notice in this book, as well as in Timequake, Vonnegut makes it clear that when you travel in time, you are just an observer - Unlike the Back to the Future movies, nothing can be changed to fix past mistakes or to stop you from making new ones. Sad, but so it goes.
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