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Slaughterhousefive taken from the name of the building where the pows were held is not only vonneguts most powerful book, it is as important as any written since 1945. Vonnegut believes that slaughterhousefive is a failure but sees this failure as a necessary part of its missionto describe the indescribability of war. Audio audio books a thousand splendid suns audiobook by khaled hosseini earreaders. Slaughterhousefive by kurt vonnegut audiobook addicts. Slaughterhouse five and its relevance to our time by santa rosa jc. The americans are brought to a building that once held pigs waiting to be.
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