This week I finished the book The Sirens of Titan, and it was actually a pretty good book. Like before there were many similarities between this book and Slaughterhouse-Five. Both books addressed the idea of a sealed fate and how everything is set in stone. One of my favorite quotes from this book was when a Trafalmadorian(close to Sluaghterhouse huh?) was on the planet Titan, but he is a robot, and he says, "His mind buzzes and pops like the mind of an Earthling-- fizzes and overheats with the thoughts of love, honor, dignity rights, accomplishments, integrity, independence--". I really like this quote alot because it talks about how this robot was programmed to do something but when asked to do something he was programmed not to do, he changed it and decided to do things for the better.
Finally, this book was another great example of a satirical based book that uses death and diminshes it to make it seem much more pointless. Kurt Vonnegut did a great job at writing this book and I would love to read another one of his books.
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