What are your Favorite Slaughterhouse 5 Blurbs!!!

[Hank Green]

Gotta narrow them down for the final poll! Make sure to select your favorite regular blurbs and your favorite LOLBlurbs. You can find all the blurbs in the forum post here!

I'm aching to tell you my favorites...but I don't want to bias anyone!

The new Blurbing Book Club Book is Going Postal!

[Cassie a.k.a. Malina]

My faves (can't pick one!!)

Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt. By 1of42

Time-bending search to tell of a massacre. The horror remains. By Cassandra

Philosophy is a weapon, which Vonnegut wields with deadly accuracy. By Ahzrei

A lesson in time, war, destruction, aliens, death, and laughter. By gingersnaps

There are no beginnings, middles, or ends, just moments. By Matt Anderson

LOLbook blurbs:

"im in ur outer space/ makin out nekkid/ war is not gud" by Danae

"time travel/ ur doin it wrong" by Iriomote

"im in yr world war 2/ beein yr prizner/ spoonin yr syruup" by Jenna

"I'z in da war. Fixxin ur eyes. Hangin wit Tralfamadorianz." by DefiGraviti

"makz ceerup/ not wur" by Shannon McGee

[Kainen]

Some of my favorites:


Time-bending search to tell of a massacre. The horror remains. by Cassandra

A perpetual circle of chaos and comprehension. by Nerdfighter Gina

Click your heels and say, "There's no place like war." by Heather Rose

Powerful without throwing a single punch... funny, sobering, classically Vonnegut. by Iriomote

"An unparalleled, shrewdly comedic satire. Timeless." by Arlin Schaffel


Lol book blurbs:

I'm in ur secund gr8 war
wearin ur drapes
noin when ur gonna di by Cassie a.k.a Malina


Im in yr world war 2
beein yr prizner
spoonin yr syruup by Jenna

[mcmuffins]

DeviousToast: Dresden is lovely this time of now.

[Kaella]

Regular:

A perpetual circle of chaos and comprehension.
Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt.
One man's message has come unstuck in time.
Death and time lose their meaning in this strange tale.
There are no beginnings, middles, or ends... just moments.
With no end or beginning of anything, everything is sublime.

LOLBlurb:

Time travel, ur doin it wrong

[Stephan]

"nonlinear time??? Aliens rock! War sucks! I so love Kurt." by Kokua
"Click your heels and say, 'There's no place like war.'" by Heather Rose
"Listen: Billy Pilgrim has become unstuck in time. Poo-tee-weet?" by Kurt Vonnegut
LOLBook: "HALP! I'Z UNSTUCK! WUTZ DA TIEM!?" by Arlin Schaffel

[Jessica]

Regular entries:

Dresden is lovely this time of now.
Listen: One man's message has come unstuck in time.
Click your heels and say, "There's no place like war."
Anywhen is possible.


Lol entries:

im in ur Dresden, chillin' in a meetlockah, time-slippin'
time travel ur doin it wrong

[JD]

I'm too late to add one???

Porn Stars in out-of-space/time, give 'em a blinking hand!!!

Whee, look what I can do,

JD

[Lexie]

Blurb: "Dresden is lovely this time of now." --DeviousToast

LOLBlurb: "Makz Ceerup Not War" --Shannon McGee


It was so hard to choose just two! Vonnegut lends himself to blurb-writing, but it's still incredibly difficult to imbue a single sentence with his wonderful sense of irony. Yet both blurbs speak to an understanding of the book that is difficult to convey in ten words or less. Slaughterhouse 5 is a contrast between the tragedy of war and the possibility of hope, and these blurbs do it fantastically well.

...Why do I feel like I just wrote an English paper?

[Rita]

Regular:

Everything is beautiful, and nothing hurt.
Dresden is lovely this time of now.
Billy is out of time and out of his mind.
Lets do the time warp again...and again...and again.
Anywhen is possible.
Does anybody really know what time it is?

LOL:
Im in ur outer space, makin out nekkid, war is not gud.
Im in ur Dresden, chillin' in a meetlockah, time-slippin'
Im in ur spaceesship pushin ur buttons deztrtig teh univerze.
I can haz no moar tiem warpz now plz? kthkxbai!! 11!!

[Awhina]

As someone who hasn't read the book, these appealed to me most.

Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt. - 1of42

live in the good moments but still remember the bad. - paige

If time no longer matters . . . does anything? - keepbabbling

There are no beginnings, middles, or ends, just moments. - Matt Anderson

Scares you to death - in a positive way. - HoldeMaid


LOLbooks:

im in ur Dresden, chillin' in a meetlockah, time-slippin' - ryan

"Im in ur Slaughterhice. Bombing ur Carnivalz. Abducting ur veteranz." - Morgan le Fay

[Cara C.]

Regular:

' Click your heels and say, "There's no place like war." ' by Heather Rose

"I read it because that's how the moment is structured." by Sarah

"Let's do the time warp again... and again... and again." by Max

"The first American to write a Tralfamadorian novel: Kurt Vonnegut." Becca

LOLbook:

"HALP! I'Z UNSTUCK! WUTZ DA TIEM!? by Arlin Schaffel

"I bee in ur phorth dimeshun, sew it went." by Paul

[DLDzioba]

Blurbs:
Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt. By 1of42
By the time you begin, it's already done. So it goes. By Joe Royce
Endorsed by NerdFighters Worldwide. By Kay
Anywhen is possible By Chris McClure

Lolblurbs:
im in ur spaceesship pushin ur buttons deztroyig teh univerze By Ethan Herdrich
War iz Hel'n'. My wifz phat. IDC. by Laura
Time travel ur doin it wrong By Iriomote
Makz Ceerup Not Wur by Shannon McGee

Keep in mind I've not yet read the book because of a tight budget and no access to a worthwhile library.