Slaughterhouse -Five

[iloveaha]

Hello

I'm new here so forgive if I don't know all the etiquette. I am taking a college course this fall and the reading assigned for it is Slaughterhouse-Five. I just finished the book and realized that there are a lot of things that remind me of Lost in this book. What struck me was how it ends with Billy Pilgrim realizing that he will always be "alive" somewhere in time and that death is only temporary. He resigns himself to the fate of shifting back and forth in his life with full knowledge of everything that has ever happened and that it will be that way forever. Has anyone else read this book and saw the some similarities to Lost? Would love to hear other's thoughts on this.

Thanks, Peace! Mary M.

[touzoku]

Hi, sounds interesting I will have to look it up.

[sugarnuts]

Yeah i read slaughterhouse-five. Fantastic book, my first by Vonnegut. Im kind of ashamed to say that the only reason i read it was because i heard it was a major influence on Darlton, but i actually really liked it.

When i read it i noticed many parallels to lost. Perhaps the biggest would be, in the book whenever Billy 'jumps' in time, the sky would turn violet with a loud hum. When Desmond turned the key in the hatch, the exact description happened. Which lead me to believe the first 'time jump' we've seen in lost actually happened at the end of season two. Also the time jumps in season five match the description.

There are many more parallesl like Billy surviving a plane crash, and the above one you mentioned about time being unchangeable, and probably many more that are slipping my mind right now.

My favorite part in the book is when Billy is trapped in the alien zoo, and he's 'forced to mate' with that famous movie actress, i thought that **** was hilarious.

[RichPundit]

I haven't read the book, but have seen the movie at least twice. I strongly agree that it fits much of our LOST mystery adventure, and vaguely recall that our PTBs revealed that it was an influence.

Besides ur comments above and elsewhere, I am struck by the repeated statement that life is a series of random time segments that always were and will be ... hence you never really die simply continue living in other time segments, Billy Pilgrim remembered most everything so he did not fear death [like Mikhail and Klugh?], and the seeming "constants" that connect each disjointed time segment like the alien planet actress mate was seen by Billy at a drive-in movie with his family. And of course, as Daniel Faraday also claimed, Billy Pilgrim claimed that he was "unstuck in time".

Think SlaughterHouse 5 may be a key coarse template for our core LOST mythology with very, very old characters repeating time segments (NB: Aldo means old in German). Perhaps Island "Specials" like Walt, Locke and Aldo are more tightly connected to our Island cuz they have been since ancient times in repeating time segments where WHH.

This thread is great!

[RichPundit]

"See you in another life Brother", or see you again and again in another life time segment

[Hurley_Bird_Special]

Check out Gallapagos and Timequake too. They are not on the book list but they should be.

[stellrchef]

If that's the case then I think it's a safe bet that Desmond is Billy

"I told you.....I'll never leave you Penny.....never"

Never's an awfully long time......