Krys

I have to start out by telling you, I'm not the biggest Jane Austen fan. I'm probably not even the smallest Austen fan. I don't get the appeal.

But....

...Add zombies and I'm a fan for life. I quite literally plowed through this book. The “unmentionables” (AKA “Satan's Army”) have taken over England and have saved Pride and Prejudice.

If you liked the movie “The Thirteenth Warrior” with Antonio Banderas, you'll love this book. (Its what the movie was based off of.)

The book reminds me of Beowulf. The insight into Viking culture is amazing. The Appendix gives you some facts that the story was based on for further research, and the introduction gives you the basis of the journey that you (like your narrator)are about to be thrown into.

And it really makes me want to read Beowulf again.

More often than not, a picture of Kurt Vonnegut is often followed by the simple sentence “So it goes.” This is the birthplace of that phrase.

Vonnegut takes you on a trek through his mind and memory of what he calls the “Children's Crusade,” the bombing of Dresden during WWII. If follows classic Vonnegut style in dealing with time no longer being a linear though so much as a web. As he describes it in this book, becoming “unstuck” in time.

This concept made me a bit wary to begin with. Many novels that venture to “swing” back and forth between time periods become confusing and muddled. Somehow, Vonnegut uses this method to help us become closer to to the characters. By the end of it, you understand why everything is the way it is... because that's the way it has to be. So it goes. :)

I have to admit, its not my favorite Vonnegut novel (that blessing is bestowed upon my first... you never forget your first) but it has been one of the best ones I have read.