I "read" (listened) to this book on my way to and from St. Louis this week. I needed something to listen to in the car and I saw this classic that I had not read before. For those of you, like me, who recognize the title as a classic but know nothing of the story, this is the story of a WWII vet. But this is not a normal memoir of war. This vet (Billy) believes that he has been kidnapped by aliens and now has the ability to time-jump from moment to moment in his life. And so his story is told in fits and starts as he jumps from war to adolescence to an alien zoo to death to birth to his honeymoon...and so on...I don't know about this book. It was interesting but I'm not really sure what makes it a classic. Is it because it was one of the first anti-war books after WWII? Is it because of the structures? The vocabulary? I guess it's short enough that it was worth the read, but I probably won't be recommending it two years from now (unlike Life of Pi...read it!)
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