Here we go trucking along, one more week before the end of the book. I am still enjoying this psychedelic trip into the mind of a WWII vet. Even after all this book is supposed to be about, the prisoners of war finally arrive at Dresden at the very end of chapter six. So lets do a quick plot summary.

We have a whole diatribe where Billy goes on a long distance trip with aliens. After being shown off in a zoo like an animal, he is flashed back to being in a mental institution to a honeymoon night to a prisoner of war. Finally, in chapter six is all about his war comrades and their personal delusions.

I am getting the sense from reading different analyses of this book that there is more inferred than is written. There are strong biblical references combined with alien references as well as the horrors of war. If all of this is to be believed, then this thing has more dimensions than the Twilight Zone. I am going to reserve stating my opinion for after the book but you literary types can interpret this as foreshadowing.

I am not feeling it today. I am not sure what I think yet, but one thing that does drive me crazy is trying to make something out of nothing. And I am saying that I have nothing so far. I remember from my school days how we would spend the entire hour trying to force all of this innuendo into books that we would read. I am going to resist the urge to do that at this moment.

End Your Programming Routine: For this reason, we will consider this week a check-in. This isn’t the first week I have felt this way, but it is the first week that I realized that I am approaching that point of trying to force something. With that, I hope that you are enjoying the book as I am.