Mark Neumann - Eighth Post

This book was pretty confusing even all the way to the end, it seems like the other book I read by Vonnegut Cat's Cradle which seemed to switch to different settings and plots over and over so you couldn't really tell what was happening. I do agree with Zakaria that the beginning of the book was a little similar to the preface of When Broken Glass Floats as Vonnegut describes the war and the conditions. The end seems pretty gruesome too when the soldiers are forced to cremate the corpses in the mines with flamethrowers since they are decaying too rapidly to be taken out as bodies. I still can't quite see the reason Vonnegut added a little sub story about the Tralfamadorians since they really didn't do much other than abduct Billy and make him travel through time somehow, but at the same time seemed as if the whole time travel thing was all a dream instead of reality. It started to seem as if Billy was hallucinating the whole thing about the Tralfamadorians and the time traveling back and forth between WWII and being on their planet. In all this was another confusing story from Vonnegut and I'm not sure I liked it too much since the story was all over the place. What do you think Zakaria?