Breakfast of Champions
by:
Kurt Vonnegut (author)
"We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane." So reads the tombstone of downtrodden writer Kilgore Trout, but we have no doubt who's really talking: his alter ego Kurt Vonnegut. Health vs sickness, humanity vs inhumanity - both sets of ideas bounce thru this challenging, funny...
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"We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane." So reads the tombstone of downtrodden writer Kilgore Trout, but we have no doubt who's really talking: his alter ego Kurt Vonnegut. Health vs sickness, humanity vs inhumanity - both sets of ideas bounce thru this challenging, funny book. As with the rest of Vonnegut's pure fantasy, it lacks the shimmering, fact
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 295
Edition language: English
This book is a crazy, seeming to head in all different directions. It covers a lot of social issues and much is about free will. It kind of makes fun of everything and is pretty 'out there' a lot. The way it is highlights how ridiculous things are in real life.
As a huge fan of Vonnegut, I was looking forward to reading Breakfast of Champions as one of his most famous works beside Slaughterhouse Five. As always, he keeps his syntax and sentence structure fairly simple, which for me is a main component of the charm of his writing. Breakfast of Champions w...
I hated this book. It made no sense. I have no idea what it was about. It is a literary Seinfeld.
Why, oh why, did I choose to read this particular book?I think I wouldn't have finished it if not for the fact I was reading it for a group challenge (immature, I know). Also, I knew there exists a film adaptation of this, so I hoped that something by way of a plot would appear. And it did, albeit d...
This is one of those books they tried to make me read at school. Twenty pages in I told the teacher I'd accept an "F" because I couldn't understand a thing. So I've now challenged myself to read this and I can't say it's anywhere near something I loved but it's not so bad. I think BofC worked better...
8 years ago
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