Recently, I came into a lot of free time. Lost just aired its series finale and that has led me to not only gain an hour that I would normally be spending, but has also saved me time from looking up theories online. I am one of the 50% of the fans out there who actually loved the ending, but that is way off topic and is to be discussed somewhere other than here.
However, one way that Lost will continue on with me is through its influences. Show runners Damon Lindeloff and Carlton Cuse have included references or flat out inclusions to their favorite literary works. One of those books is Kurt vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five. I had friends who discussed Vonnegut before, but I was always hesitant to read it, because for some unknown reason I always thought his writing style would be way above my head. That is not the case. Vonnegut is accessible, yet still very intelligent. Much like Chuck Palahniuk.
What drew me in even more is the content in Slaughterhouse-Five. It is a somewhat autobiographical accounts of Vonnegut's World War 2 experiences, but rather than make an accurate re-telling, he decided to throw realism out the door and mix his real-life events with Sci-fi elements. I absolutely love that! Maybe that would have been a better route for all the memoir authors out there who seem to fudge their life story (like the A Million Little Pieces author).
In the first chapter, Vonnegut recalls a professor asking him if his book is an anti-war book, as it may as well be an anti-glacier book. Because you can't stop a glacier just like war. Global Warming seems to be stopping the glaciers, but can it stop the war?
