[a:Kurt Vonnegut|2778055|Kurt Vonnegut|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1233193902p2/2778055.jpg] is one of the most insightful author I have ever read. So many of his books have big influence on how I'm thinking now.

This book connects to one of his core themes: the terrifying and disgusting thing that World War II was. As opposed to [b:Slaughterhouse-Five|4981|Slaughterhouse-Five|Kurt Vonnegut|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1227252234s/4981.jpg|1683562], that examines the same thing but mixes in quite a bit of sci-fi, Mother Night is as simple and down to earth as possible. Some people describe it as an "absurd" treatment of the story, but I'm sure if we'd know what happened in real life during those times, those stories were a 100x more absurd. We are just not used to see deep down into things, not the way we can do through Vonnegut's eyes here. I think this is a very important work and we need this to see the world and the people the way they really are, we need to open our eyes, no matter of the consequences.

From the preface (paraphrasing): "We are what we pretend to be, so be very careful what do you pretend."