Vonnegut

I read Slaughterhouse-Five for WWII book club topic. The few passages that I enjoyed:

She said she was going to join a church as soon as she decided which one was right. She never did decide. She did develop a terrible hankering for a crucifix, though. And she bought one from a Santa Fe gift shop during a trip the little family made out West during the Great Depression. Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.

and

Billy asked for something to read on is trip to Tralfamadore. His captors had five million Earthling books on microfilm, but no way to project them in Billy's cabin. The had only one actual book in English, which would be placed in a Tralfamadorian museum. It was Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann.