This book made me realize the cost of war & it’s not just the loss of humanity

My first reaction after reading Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five is that the 215 pages of text are very readable, but the narrative is not simple. Any story about the effects of war is not simple. This book is also a metafiction----the first chapter, for instance, is a preface, a long one. So expect to be rewarded by the intimacy of the author explaining to the reader why he wrote Slaughterhouse-Five and how he wrote it in such a way that makes sense to him.