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Today I shall review Slaughterhouse-five, a semi-autobiographic anti-war novel by Kurt Vonnegut . Published in 1969, the novel has met with largely positive reviews and is widely regarded as a classic (it even made the list of the best one hundred modern novels according to Time magazine).  Slaughterhouse-five  was nominated for Nebula and Hugo award in 1970, but lost to Ursula Le Guin The Left Hand of Darkness.  The novel focuses on Billy Pilgrim, a young American soldier who fought in WW2 and survived the bombing of Dresden. The book follows the story of his life. The novel opens with the famous line: " All of this happened, more or less. " The writing style and the language used is simple ( and in accordance with Vonnegut signature style) but the narrative is not linear and post-modernist. In fact, the novel features many jumps through time. The novel even contains science fiction elements as its protagonist Billy believes he can travel through time and is in communi...

 Hello dear readers!  Roger Zelazny is perhaps* best known for his Amber series. However,  your summer break might not be long enough for you to tackle a series consisting of ten books.  Series are not everyone's cup of tea, anyway.Moreover, Zelazny has written many amazing stand alone books. Today I'll recommend some of my favourite stand alone books by Roger Zelazny.  I used the adjective *perhaps because some of Zelazny's works are quite well known. Many of his novels won a Nebula and Hugo award (some even both). This Immortal shared a Hugo award with Frank Herbert's Dune in 1966. Still, I think that The Chronicles of Amber are Zelazny's best known works. Not everyone might agree and I might not be right, but there's something about writing a successful series that ties an author's name to it. This especially seems to be the case when it comes to science fiction and fantasy series (and  The Chronicles of Amber are a mix of both genres). Speaki...