Reading Post #5

This week I have decided to read another Kurt Vonnegut novel, The Sirens of Titan. this book follows the story of a man named Malachi Constant. From Beginning to end the book seems Topsy Turvy the whole way. The book addresses many problems in society as well as creating some just for the story itself. When I read this book it did take me a while to read because at some points it did get very boring. But as a whole the book, shows us how absurd and completely proposterous human beings are when it comes to life. Also it shows what happens when someone knows all things that are going to happen and act as a god over other people.

I think that think book is quite similar to Mr. Vonnegut's other book, Slaughterhouse-Five in that it uses the idea of time travel, not completely in the Sirens of Titan, but it also has a much less linear story line compared to other books. Also just like his other books, Vonnegut uses a lot of satire to play down some ideas like death. Finally, another great similarity to Slaughterhouse is that the idea of the pointlessness of war plays another big role. Perhaps, since this was written before, Kurt Vonnegut tried to come up with some of his ideas for Slaughterhouse in some other of his books; many of the ideas in this book are used almost the same in Slaughterhouse.