Breakfast of Champions

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Summary: If you like Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions is a must-read
Review: In sort of a creative release, Vonnegut creates one of the strangest and most unique novels I've read. It takes a bit of knowledge into Vonnegut's style, but if you've liked other works by Vonnegut, don't miss Breakfast of Champions.

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Summary: GO AHEAD, BUY IT-- IT'S ONLY SIX BUCKS!
Review: Breakfast of Champions is Vonnegut for people who hate Vonnegut. It's ironic, it's witty, it's fourth dimensional, it pushes the literary medium further than ever, but most of all: it's funny. The little details are fantastic, you want to say, "you can't make this stuff up." Vonnegut's alter ego Kilgore Trout, the anti-social science fiction writer for porno magazines, gets into all sorts of wacky adventures on his way to a convention. The synopsises of Kilgore's stories are so clever and satirical you almost wish they were novels too! Buy it, you'll love it.

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Summary: Funny, but what was it about again?
Review: Although I found this novel extremely funny, I had to keep asking myself what it was about. Maybe I am just too dense to get it or I over-analized it. Probably the first. In any case, if the rest of Vonneguts novels are as funny as BOC, I might take a look at them too. I'll make sure to have an interpreter on hand.

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Summary: Adaptation to chaos
Review: Vonnegut is just amazing with his almost naive humor and storytelling. For me, Breakfast was thoroughly stimulating and thought provoking but not to the point of where I was lost (the book renders an intellectual but very comical voice). Vonnegut's amazing style made me a fan with Slaugherhouse-five which completely changed my perspective on the world with the novel's exploration of...well everything that is human and not. But back to the Breakfast... Vonnegut is very creative with writing himself into the story. He takes such a real voice when dealing with his characters and their lives which are really representative of our own. For anyone looking to break the confinds of conventional life, Vonnegut is the way to go.

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Summary: One of Vonnegut's Best
Review: This is an excellent book. It runs a close second to his inspired "Cat's Cradle." The book focuses on a used car salesman slowly going mad, Kilgore Trout, and Vonnegut himself. The book sees the meeting of author and his long-time character Trout. This book was supposed to be Vonnegut's last. Thankfully, it wasn't, it was just one of his best. JW

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Summary: Breakfast of Champions-Eat it how you like!
Review: It is incredible. As you are faced with tragic, disturbed, and ignorant characters, you must realize that there are people like this in the world. All minds do not work alike, and all minds will find something different in Vonnegut's prose. You can pick it up one day and laugh, another and feel horrible about human nature, another and be baffled, or even just shake your head at its cleverness. However you see it, Kurt does it right. I haven't read this for years, but it is a novel that will always be a five-starer for me. I wonder what I will think when I read it next?

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Summary: one of the best books in the english language
Review: the funniest, deepest, most thought-provoking book that i know of. go read it *now*, you won't regret it!

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Summary: It is more than just funny
Review: I get on this site and the first review I see is something like "Funny, funny Stuff". Okay I'm not to stodgy to say that this book wasn't hilarious but it was also incredibly depressing. Not to sound like a commercial, but this isn't a book to borrow but one to buy. It requires numerous reads to get it. Get it.

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Summary: I do not recommend this book
Review: Anyone who thinks 'Breakfast of Champions' is "outright hilarious" has a strange sense of humor. Not once was I even mildly amused. Was it the crude humor for shock value? The blatant attempts at teaching us lessons about our messed up society? If you are desperate enough to read this book, I recommend just looking at the pictures, that's about as good as it gets.

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Summary: Vonnegut has ruined the American novel for me!
Review: That's right! After devouring BOC and splitting my seems I can't seem to read other novels with the same zest. Silly, spirited, sad...it raked my brainscape raw. Right up there with Tom Robbins' "Another Roadside Attraction"--(the other book that ruined it for me). I'll be scouring the book stores for a new champion for a loooong time! And so on... Thanks alot, Kurt!