Slaughterhouse Five, published in 1969, was hailed as a great anti-war, nonlinear science fiction novel about the bombing of Dresden, Germany, during WWII. It put Kurt Vonnegut and Dresden on the map. I wasn’t ready to read it in 1969, perhaps because it was still unclear in my mind about my convictions concerning Vietnam and the anti-war efforts on campus. My focus was on recovering from my own Army experiences and my return to YVC. Reading the book over 55 years later, I can see why it was celebrated; however, I was not thrilled by Vonnegut’s writing style or Bill Pilgrim’s time travel to the fictional planet of Tralfamadore.