Rating: Summary: if you don't like this book, you are a sad sad person Review: indeed this is the best anything ever (hence best book ever, man). i choose my close friends with this book. i give it to chums and if they like it, they are in, and if they don't, they are decidedly robots full of bad chemicals. vonnegut tells you to listen: we are all robots. face it. you are a robot! you may say (and i can hear you now) that vonnegut is cynical for suggesting such a thing. but he is just being honest about our preposterous existence, and if you think that facing up to the truth is cynical, then it is you who is looking at reality in a bad light. vonnegut is probably laughing and laughing about something silly right now. he is a beautiful robot. i wish he was my friend. i don't know if i've mentionned it already, but this is the best anything ever (even better than the anteater's snout). i kid ye not. word.
Rating: Summary: Book of Champions Review: I am almost done reading this book, and it is awesome! Vonnegut is a genius! This book is brilliant and humorous. A definate must read!
Rating: Summary: Not for everyone. Review: Dig it. I do anyways. Maybe you won't. It's entirely up to taste and whatnot. Vonnegut's story is lovely, and so is Vonnegut's storytelling. Vonnegut tells his tale in a condescending manner. He talks to the world as if we're all a bunch of kids, having to show us little pictures of everything. This storytelling is often hilarious, though it can get annoying to some people. The book is about our rotten, lowly existence. Vonnegut condescends because people are (apparently in Vonnegut's eyes) generally idiots, and Vonnegut is god of this story. He even steps into the story (love it of hate it) and chills out in his own creation. All powerful and completely omniscient, he tells you about everyone and everything in the city. Making for wonderful characterization. By the end, Midway City seems to breathe. Some will love this. Others will be completely annoyed by Vonnegut laughing in their face and his madcap style.
Rating: Summary: Don't Bother Wasting Your Time Review: It's amazing how Kurt Vonnegut has been able to hornswaggle readers for so long; and that he's finally being accepted as genuine literature by the elitist critics and professors demonstrates his thimblerigging proficiency. That said, I will admit "Breakfast" has the most accessable story of any of his books I've perused. The structure is at least interesting, the way he's managed to chop the narrative into sound bites and nevertheless make it coherent. What first puts one off this novel, though, are his windy pontifications. It seems almost a contradiction in terms to find a nihilist egoist, but somehow Vonnegut manages. I grew tired of the author long before the story itself grew tedious. If you enjoy Vonnegut's smug tendentiousness, I would recommend this book as one of his better efforts. If you're looking for mature fiction, pass by.
Rating: Summary: best in the history of ever Review: when i think about the fact that someone i care about has not read this book, i almost start to cry. when i think about the fact that an ex-girlfriend of mine may have the opportunity to read this book, i start to cringe. chances are, i don't know who you are, but i love vonnegut so much for writing this book that i want him to get as much money as he can from you and anyone else. best book ever written.
Rating: Summary: Delightful and Marvelous Review: This book is marvelous. It completely changed the way I look at literature and life in general. In his narrative Vonnegut has taken everything you expect about the way fiction should be written, put it in a blender, and beaten the blender into oblivion with a baseball bat. Do yourslef a favor and buy this, right now.
Rating: Summary: Breakfast of Champions Review: Hilarious little book, and a quick read too. If you like Vonnegut's other books and haven't read this one, you will want to read it. The illustrations are great!
Rating: Summary: A truely excellent book Review: Vonnegut, justly nicknamed one of the greatest satirists of the time, is truely magnificent in this book. 'Breakfast' proves to be a terrifyingly accurate description of society while at the same time is so obscure and comical... I enjoyed his style very much, especially towards the end of this book when Vonnegut introduced himself into the story. Anyone can benefit from reading this.
Rating: Summary: Almost too funny! Review: This is a comedy classic. Quick read that you'll read again, because it is so funny. Vonnegut the "Creator" makes light of everything and everybody.
Rating: Summary: Avid reader Review: I have read every work Vonnegut has written, and this is by far one of his best works. The characters are all very real, and allow the readers to get to know them. Illustrated by Vonnegut himself, this book is definately easy to read, yet hard to put down. The main character, Kilgore Trout, a Vonnegut favorite (perhaps Vonnegut himslef?) appears in yet another tale. As an aside, some of the books Vonnegut describes that Trout wrote, would make excellent sci-fi books. I'm surprised Vonnegut (or some literary plagarist or hack) hasn't expounded on any of the themes. The book is great, and if any reader has never read Vonnegut, this is a great one to start with. You'll be hooked!
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