Breakfast of Champions: A Novel
“Marvelous . . . [Vonnegut] wheels out all the complaints about America and makes them seem fresh, funny, outrageous, hateful and lovable.”—The New York Times
In Breakfast of Champions, one of Kurt Vonnegut’s most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. What follows is murderously funny satire, as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth.
“Free-wheeling, wild and great . . . uniquely Vonnegut.”—Publishers Weekly
In Breakfast of Champions, one of Kurt Vonnegut’s most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. What follows is murderously funny satire, as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth.
“Free-wheeling, wild and great . . . uniquely Vonnegut.”—Publishers Weekly
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Listen: In the foreword, Vonnegut describes this book as the product of throwing all the junk in his head out onto the sidewalk, and I thought that was a very apt description as the story is almost entirely made of the thinly-veiled social commentary (and that veil is cellophane) you expect from Vonnegut. I was, admittedly, a little too quick to write this book off as a crass, jumbled collection of pessimist takes on the state of humanity, but in typical Vonnegut fashion, the deeper themes won out in the end. This was a quick read that charmed me against all odds.
I am a band of unwavering light, and I give this one four stars.
And so on.
I am a band of unwavering light, and I give this one four stars.
And so on.
I loved the beginning so much but it fizzled out a little. There were amazing sentences and thoughts throughout. A mentally ill author (fictional interior voice which I’m sure resembles Vonnegut but is not quite him- and oh hey was this also Kilgore or no?) writes about the breakdown of his mentally ill character, Dwayne.
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