The second novel I read twice (voluntarily) as a student was Slaughterhouse Five. The first was The Catcher in the Rye. The only research paper I’m actually proud of writing was the one where I compared Billy Pilgrim and Holden Caulfield and ultimately came to the conclusion that being an anti-hero wasn’t so bad as it sounds at first.
I still hold that opinion.
“When I got home from the Second World War 23 years ago, I thought it would be easy for me to write about the destruction of Dresden, since all I would have to do would be to report what I had seen. And I thought, too, that it would be a masterpiece or at least make me a lot of money, since the subject was so big.”
