So it goes

I just finished reading the short anti-war novel, Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children's Crusade by Kurt Vonnegut. Writing an anti-war book, it says, is like writing an anti-glacier book. You just can't stop them.
The main character travels back and forth in time, to WW2, to the present, to the past, to his end, everywhere. What? Well, it does make sense. After all, everyone can travel in time, the Tralfamadorians taught him.

When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in a bad condition in that particular moment, but that the same person is just fine in plenty of other moments. Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is 'So it goes'.

Many compare this book to Catch-22. Although both books are about WW2, and are on the funny side, their spirit is very different. Where Catch-22 is about the madness of war, Slaughterhouse-Five is about the madness of giving meaning to war memories.
The prose is musical and easy. If you want a funny, light read, about a complex subject, like the Dresden fire-bombing during WW2, by a brilliant, unique author, check it out. It is an excelent study on the mind of a war veteran. In a scale of terrible monsters of land and air, this book beats Godzilla, Mothra and King Kong all together.