Submitted by Makeitstopgoshdarnit t3_11l106j in books
I first read Slaughterhouse Five when I was a pre-teen in the early 1970’s. I thought it was just a weird sci-fi romp and was pretentious surrealism like much of the art of that period. I recently re-read it at 65 and it finally dawned on me that the protagonist, Billy Pilgrim, was lost in a PTSD induced psychosis trying to deal with the horrors he had experienced in WW II. I wonder what else I’ve missed from all the literature I’ve read because of my age and extent of experience when I read it!