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Breakfast of Champions

Breakfast of Champions

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Vonnegut's funniest book
Review: This was suppose to be his last, thus paving the path for the most outrageous book he has written. Funniest and most unique book I have read to this point in my life.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: whoa mama ... creeeeepy!
Review: I don't know about the rest of the world, but I found this particular Vonnegut effort bone-chilling. Its a direct strike at madness through the guise of normality rings true to me, or to anyone whose actually had a nervous breakdown.

But I love the book. Its brilliant, honest, shocking and surprise-surprise: touching. Trout evokes in us, and most probably in Hoover, the need to seek truth in the most obscure places when real world seems putrid with pain and about to fall apart.

Though not as outstanding as Slaughter-House Five, this is a personal effort worthy of remembrance, if only to understand the man better.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: An epiphany for me at 16
Review: In 1973, at 16 years of age, this is the first book I read on my own,(not assigned school reading). Thank you Mr. Vonnegut for helping lift the veil of hypocrisy from my eyes so light may be let in.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: My favorite Vonnegut novel
Review: Vonnegut is one of my favorite authors, and the literary equivelant of a Coen Brothers film. This book, in my own opinion is Vonnegut's best (well, maybe a tie with "Cat's Cradle"). This is one of the few books I have tore threw in one day, The only other one that comes readily to mind is George Stark's "Comeback".

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: My Review is Great... no, Breakfast of Champions is Great
Review: We all seem to be so free with our criticisms of objects of art. When I was fired as a schoolteacher for recommending Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions to my college-bound seniors here in Alabama, I was forced to confront the merits of the books. Sure, Kurt is self-indulging. That's why we like him. He is a moralist. This is a fine book that I would recommend to every person. It is hard to label one of KV's books the best. But if I were forced to do so, Breakfast of Champions would be the best.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Wow...what a racist book!
Review: One thing about the author is, he loves the "n-word" and he hates blacks. I never could understand 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 often 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.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: One of my personal favorites!
Review: I don't really know if many of the people who give this book a luke-warm review even know what they are talking about. Take it at face value without putting too much forethought into the fact that Kurt Vonnegut wrote Slaughterhouse-five and you will realize that it is a great, thought provoking, hilarious novel. I would recommend anyone to give it a try.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: What can I say? It's Vonnegut.
Review: Not Vonnegut's best, but not his worst. Not that it really matters, because his worst is still worth buying and reading. A little too fantastic and meandering for my taste, but the satire never misses.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: so honest it hurts
Review: What makes Vonnegut a true and marvelous master of the human condition and life and everything is his acceptance of the unexplainable. Rather than trying to give reasons and solutions, he simply lays it all out in a vastly entertaining style, and challenges his readers to make something of the mess. Here, with a unspectacular cast of characters whirling around in a lot of nothing, it's really rather amazing how deeply touching and brilliant the story is. Although this has a lot to do with Vonnegut's uncanny ability to poke your mind with subtle points in an obvious fashion, it also has to do with the fact that not everything is glamorous and suspenseful and neat. In fact, very little is. The meeting of Vonnegut and Trout at the end is absolutely classic, I could not stop grinning through the entire encounter, and the book itself is genius. Dare to be cynical with the master.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: a instant classic
Review: This book was very insightful and entertaining. Some other readers think that this is trash and belongs in the garbage can but it's not. If you wish to read something thought-provoking yet humorous choose this book!


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