Finished Slaughterhouse Five a couple days ago. Fantastic fucking novel!!!
You should check it out, Brian. The book is almost like a cloaked autobiography. While there's plenty of satire and science fiction aspects to the book, the story itself is for the most part a memoir of an American POW captured by the Germans in WWII. He ends up one of the only survivors of the Dresden bombings. This is all what the author also went through in the war.
It's very different from most war stories because it doesn't glorify the army or war at all. It's a very sad, bleak narrative that is undeniably anti-war. However, there's plenty of humor and irony scattered throughout.
Did I mention the main character also travels through time involuntarily and gets abducted by aliens called Tralfamadorians who keep him as a zoo display? Should definitely mention that. The book is a total mindfuck and I feel compelled to read it again.
I've my own interpretation of the overall story because it's very complex and leaves one to ask a lot of questions. I won't post my thoughts in case someone here wants to read it.
Check it out, Brian. You won't be disappointed. Plus, it was only around 300 pages if I recall.