I'm glad I read this, but I don't think I "get it" in terms of what the author is trying to do.
It's a story built around the WWII Dresden fire-bombing.
But mostly tracks the adventures of Billy Pilgrim - a rather strange fellow who ends up in the war, gets captured and sent to Dresden (where he survives because confined in a reinforced slaughterhouse), gets married to a wealthy spouse, runs (or perhaps "falls into") a thriving optometry practice, travels in time, and journeys to a faraway planet.
Anti-war; lots of clever writing; absurdist style; all that's fine.
But still.
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