Breakfast of Champions: A Novel
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- ISBN13: 9780385334204
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Breakfast Of Champions is vintage Vonnegut. One of his favorite characters, aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. The result is murderously amusing satire as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth.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
I’d say it was a book purposely written stupidly to appear clever. I establish it extremely dull. I gagged out 1/2 way through it. I gurantee I can write better than this. If an unknown leader had submitted this tale to a publisher, it would have been returned with a rejection form letter.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5