This was the first Vonnegut book that I read and I remember my teacher warning me that I may not understand it very much the first time through. Although that may have been true, it didn't stop me from falling in love with Kurt Vonnegut. I love how weird this novel is (and all of his novels, really). I love how this novel revolves around war, but since the main character, Billy, has become "unstuck in time" it takes place during many different times, and on different planets. I love how Vonnegut approaches war and meshes it with meeting aliens on another planet... because, in a sense, it's how we think about war. Fighting with people that we don't understand, on soil that is different from our own. Whether or not that was Vonnegut's intention, I am unsure, but that is a way that you could read Slaughterhouse-Five. I've read a lot of his other books since Slaughterhouse-Five, and they are all equally entertaining, weird, and thought-provoking.