Breakfast Of Champions
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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The leader questions the condition of modern man in this novel, depicting a science fiction writer’s struggle to find peace and sanity in the world.Amazon.com Review
“We are healthy only to the extent that our thoughts are humane.” So reads the tombstone of exploited writer Kilgore Trout, but we have no doubt who’s really talking: his alter ego Kurt Vonnegut. Health versus sickness, humanity versus inhumanity–both sets of thoughts bounce through this challenging and amusing book. As with the rest of Vonnegut’s pure fantasy, it lacks the shimmering, fact-fueled rage that illuminates Slaughterhouse-Five. At the same time, that makes this book perhaps more enjoyable to read.
Breakfast of Champions is a slippery, lucid, bleakly humorous excursion through (sick? inhumane?) America circa 1973, with Vonnegut acting as our Virgil-like companion. The book follows its main character, auto-dealing levelheaded-citizen Dwayne Hoover, down into madness, a condition brought on by the work of the aforementioned Kilgore Trout. As Dwayne cracks, then crumbles, Breakfast of Champions coolly shows the effects his dementia has on the web of characters surrounding him. It’s not much of a plot, but it’s enough for Vonnegut to air unique opinions on America, sex, war, like, and all of his additional pet topics–you know, the only ones that really count.
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I didn’t read the book, but I saw the movie (which by the way filmed near my hometown). It stars Bruce Willis as the wacky Dwane Hoover. the movie to me was OK
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
One thing about the leader is, he likes the “n-word” and he despises blacks. I never could know how people who call themselves imaginative creators take such pride in alienating select audiences. Don’t you want people to buy the darn book??? You effectively killed your black audience, Kurt. Now, I’m a smart man with a high tolerance for stupidity and wacked opinions and am regularly able to find art in the sublime. From another black man’s promptings, I bought the book and read it. I was disgusted. No doubt, Quentin Tarrantino is clammoring for the rights to make the film. If you don’t like blacks and you’re the type of person who feels that nobody ever gets your jokes, this “book” is for you.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I was sooooooo dissapointed since I am a huge fan of Vonnegut’s and like his writing style (except in this book), not to mention my favorite character Kilgore Trout. I read some of the reviews and chose to snub the negative ones since there is so many people out there who clearly miss Vonnegut’s point. It is racist, sexist and towards the end he just rambles on pointlessly about things … that have nothing to do with what he is talking about. I am used to being shocked by Vonnegut but this was too much. DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK, it is a waste of time and money.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This review is for the audio CD version of the novel. I read the book for the first time 20+ years ago. At the time, we lived in a different world. As a teenager, I thought Vonnegut was cool, and I devoured this novel. 20+ years later, I can no longer stomach it. Back when it was hip to bash American and all it stands for, this book seemed vital. I can see now that it is not. Don’t bother reading this.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Kurt Vonnegut is a snake oil salesman. His writing is so pretentious, self-referential, and nihilistic that you can’t help but despise Vonnegut personally and despise even more the intellectuals and professors who praise him religiously.
Breakfast of Champions is no different than the rest of his work. He randomly inserts inane facts to be amusing, like the size of male characters’ organs once he introduces them. These can come at any moment, so you have to be prepared for them. The book is extremely brassy in that the obscenities have no redeeming value. There is no genuine emotion behind them.
The plot? There is none that makes any sense. Furthermore, Vonnegut partakes in America bashing for the first 10 pages and comes across as a Communist, which made me nearly place the book down, but I muscled through the rest of it on a long airplane ride.
Completely unenjoyable. No redeeming value. One of the worst books I’ve ever read.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5