Anyone here read Slaughterhouse five?

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seanissickguy — 9 years ago(November 17, 2016 07:32 PM)

I saw that the other of the short story Arrival is based on bas partly inspired by slaughterhouse five. I noticed the parallels pretty quickly. Was anyone else getting slaughterhouse five vibes?

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transmentalist — 9 years ago(November 17, 2016 07:36 PM)

Very much so - I half-expected her daughter at the end to ask her whether she'd "come unstuck in time again."

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MoviemanCin — 9 years ago(November 17, 2016 09:00 PM)

I read and loved Slaughterhouse Five, but didn't really get that vibe with this film.
Schrodinger's cat walks into a bar and doesn't.

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huwdj — 9 years ago(November 18, 2016 01:21 PM)

I've read it a couple of times over the years but I didn't pick up on any similarity.
So it goes.

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Lloyd_Lloyd — 9 years ago(November 19, 2016 03:05 PM)

And The Sirens of Titan, too.

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Tsotha-lanti — 9 years ago(November 21, 2016 10:49 AM)

I will have read that in the past, so yeah.

Imagine that.

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Lloyd_Lloyd — 9 years ago(November 21, 2016 01:48 PM)

I will have read that in the past, so yeah.
Bravo.

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MaxRenn2 — 9 years ago(November 21, 2016 03:09 PM)

Yes, but that book is a masterpiece, while Chiang's story and this movie are cloddish failures.
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