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Summary: Looking for a fun book to read?
Review: This book was really good. The whole story has an underlined meaning. A really good book if you are feeling down and want to laugh at how silly other peoples lives can be. One of Vonneguts' best novels!
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Summary: Good Satire
Review: Breakfast of Champions makes you look at the world in a different light. Vonnegut points out the insanity of everyday life with a tremendous amount of cleverness. It wasn't as good as Slaughter House Five, but it was worth reading.
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Summary: Perfect Chaos
Review: Vonnegut has pulled off another classic with this one, alongside Cats Cradle, a great book, and others I have yet to read. The author uses Kilgore Trout who he uses also in Timequake, but in "Breakfast" Trout seems to fit in the story more and the story is more planned and assembled for this earlier work. But the Trout in this one and Timequake are both in different universes of the author's invention because trout die in 1981 in this book but he is alive for the timequake in the 90's.I like the idea that all characters, major and minor, have equal impact on the story. The cast of characters makes the story simultaneously funny and sad. As for the content: I am totally against censorship and politically corectedness, but being a member of the generation that follows 'X', my brainwashed mind could not help but cringe at some of the phrases used. Never mind that, though. Everything, the language, the drawings, everything in the book worked artfully.
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Summary: Vonnegut's best
Review: I find Kurt Vonnegut's Kilgore Trout novels to be his best, and this one belongs at the top of the heap. Vonnegut wrote this book as a gift to himself upon his 50th birthday, but it is better suited as a gift to the world, which could benefit by listening to the advice given by the author on humanity, the environment, and a host of other topics. Part novel, part sketch book, part essay- "Breakfast of Champions" is a sweet package of all things Vonnegut- and an absolute must-read.
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Summary: Pokes fun at Magazine Scfi
Review: Sarcastic take on the perception of early magazine scfi writing before Vonnegut moves onto other stuff. Strong on irony and as it written in 1973 quite environmental as well. Appeals to my twisted humour anyhow - best judged by reading the Sirens of Titan. Story: Dysfunctional society and how some make it, and others go crazy seen though Dwayne, a car dealer and Kilgore Trout famous author to two fans on a trip to an arts festival across America.
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Summary: Refreshing
Review: Vonnegut is simply outstanding, he writes with a clarity and honesty which is exhilirating. His greatest charm is the nearly child like way he sees the world, and this is one of his finest works. A humourous and intelligent sideways look at modern life, a must read book.
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Summary: Ego trip
Review: An entertaining book but I found that it drifted a bit towards the end. I have read two other Vonnegut books and found Breakfast of Champions the weakest of the three. What I found annoying was the author introducing himself into the book in the last third of the story. It just seemed to be attention getting and have no real benefit to the story itself.
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Summary: wacky and poignant
Review: Aside from his sense of humor, which I like, I admire Vonnegut's ability, which he demonstrates in this novel, to mix the tragic with the absurd and come up with something both sad and comical. Long live Kilgore Trout!
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Summary: The perfect introduction to Zen.
Review: American narcissism can be very blinding. Only a few critics see that Andy Warhol's art deals with something more than American consumerism and pop-culture. Kurt Vonnegut's book is only in part an anathema to American provincial life. If you want to experience Zen stripped of it's Oriental trappings do not miss Breakfast for Champions. Just like Andy Warhol, Rusin by birth, Vonnegut is an outsider to the American culture. He takes the items of everyday life, choosing these with the maximum layers of idiosyncrasy - used car yards, KFC joints, Holiday Inns - and regals them with the extraterrestrial's stare. We are born and raised with a certain mental molding, we see the things as they are supposed to be seen. Then something happens. You see hundreds of Marilyn Monroe's faces in Warhol's painting and the pop icon becomes a weird combination of dots, lines and shades. You read Vonnegut and see his drawings of the most familiar objects - and they become as unearthly as Nasca reliefs. When I had my satori I rode a bus and suddenly became aware of the weird flesh formations on the sides of a fellow passenger's head. Only a part of my brain was storing the name for that phenomenon - "ears". The rest of me was just looking. All the happenings in the book are just an excuse for showing you that stare. It is an American province, but could be Nairobi slums or Danish boyscout camp. The prose is detached, laconical. If you are looking for "funny" parts you'll find them. But that would be entirely your fault.
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Summary: Vonnegut should be on a "Wheaties" box.
Review: Vonnegut has the ability to dig up society's most disturbing attributes and make us laugh them in the face. Breakfast of Champions is no exception to this rule. The story revolves around an unappreciated author and the man who takes one of his works a bit too seriously. Going any farther would ruin it so i'll stop. Overall a great book and it's illustrated too! If you like Vonnegut this will reaffirm that liking, if you've never read him before this will make you a believer. I also recommend by Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse-5, and if you have some time to kill, Mother Night.
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