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Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut When literary critics and everyday readers started rewinding to pick their favourite novels of the century past, there were few points of agreement. Ulysses must have pride of place, intoned the experts. No, that honour must go to Atlas Shrugged, countered readers in Net polls. On Slaughterhouse-Five, one of the great anti-war novels, however, there was unanimity. The experts put it at 18, readers squeezed it in at 23. Same difference, really. Here's an excerpt from the book: "All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty ...
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