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Summary: it was really, really swell...
Review: Don't waste time reading some pretentious, pompous, and all together boring review of BOC--just read it.
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Summary: breakfast of champions - truly a champion
Review: This was the very first book of vonnegut's i have ever read. Since then, i have read ten others, and am on the quest to finish all, what, twenty-five of them? I was so inspired by this book, i am now working on a stage adaption for it. Completely thought provoking, I don't think that there is a single book that can be so simple in its writing, yet comment so much on the society we live in. Completely timeless, this book will be a classic... at least in my mind!
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Summary: Goodbye Blue Mondays, Welcome Blue Everydays
Review: One of the book that makes me drop out. Okay, it's a familiar story, you've heard it all before but if there's such a thing as an influential book, Breakfast of Champions is one of them. The drawings in themselves are classic, do you still remember the "beaver"?. I haven't read this in a long time, I'm ordering the book.....
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Summary: one of the most intelligent books ever
Review: vonnegut takes you on a trip through the lives of two helpless soul that he creates. it is never dull or even dump. this book had me spellbound for the hour it took me to read it. a bonus note: this book is even more enjoyable after reading "God Bless you Mr.Rosewater" and "Slaughterhouse-Five" They sort of act as an unoffical trilogy. The ending is amazing. it stills has me thinking about it.
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Summary: A Vonnegut classic
Review: A definite tear-jerker, both in laughter and sorrow, Breakfast of Champions is a novel about everything. Kurt brings 2 people together, Kilgore Trout, the chronically indiferent and highly unmotivated alter-ego of Vonnegut, and the car dealer in the Mid-West with "bad chemicals." This book is supposed to be a movie, Dwayne Hoover being played by Bruce Willis. That's a good casting. This is a must for Vonnegut fans and those who want to understand life, the universe and everything the way it actually it is. The best example of the classic description of Vonnegut's style - gallow's humor
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Summary: Laugh and cry at the same time while reading this book!
Review: This is Vonnegut's best. If you've never read his stuff, PLEASE read this. Makes you think (about everything), laugh out loud, and at the same time, breaks your heart.
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Summary: Addictive Wheaties for the Soul
Review: This book got me hooked on Kurt who is a member of my fraternity, Delta Upsilon. Beware, you will now be sucked into his uncanny world of coincedence and relation to experience a book that will cause your legs to fall asleep if you read it on the toilet. Kurt's publishers should just market "The Kurt Vonnegut Collection" because you'll end up buying all his books anyway.
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Summary: My second Vonnegut experience
Review: After reading Hocus Pocus and Still Life With Woodpecker, by Tom Robbins, I didn't think I could read a better book. I was wrong. Although this is only the second book by Vonnegut I've read, I am now an eternal fan. Vonnegut's wry wit and sense of humor keep this book whipping along like a slave driver. His pictures do nothing but add to the entertainment of the words. I love to read books that seem to be conpletely insane and pointless but are thoroughly entertaining and thought provoking. Everyone with any intelligence should read this book and laugh about it.
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Summary: Gee, I liked it ...
Review: I know it's tedious to hear it again, but this really is the best book I have ever read, and it's my job to read books. Vonnegut reassesses everythng he's done so far (so you don't have to read it) (good job, on some of his titles, to be truthful). Bascically, if you've ever wanted your very own Anthropologist to scrutinise your strange 20th century ways, here it is. Don't be fooled by the 'talking to a two year old' tone Vonnegut adopts, this one could change your reading for a long long time! Don't waste time reading a review - read it!
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Summary: Breakfast of Champions: a Clarion Call for Sanity
Review: Goodbye Blue Monday or Breakfast of Champions outrageously funny, provocatively clever, and just an all around pleasant page-turner. The spiritual journey that Mr. Vonnegut takes us on is poignantly authentic, while at the same time ribaldly funny. Mr. Vonnegut, on the precipice of suicide (real or virtual), engages in a protracted orgy of cathartic blood-letting, a purging of the flotsam and jetsam of what passes for culture in this disneyland of a country of ours, that has collected in the drain pan of his consciousness. It's an Irish wake on acid, and along the way Mr. Vonnegut experiences an unexpected epiphany (real or virtual) in the person of one of his creations, the painter Rabo Karabekian. Karabekian teaches Mr. Vonnegut that Homo sapiens do in fact possess some sanctity in the guise of our awareness, expressed by Karabekian in his painting, "The Temptation of St. Anthony," as "an unwavering band of light." Unwavering in the sense that, even with all of the cockymamied crapshoot contretemps that constitutes life on this planet, we remain sentient. In the process of defending his painting in a Holiday Inn cocktail lounge to some of the outraged citizens of Midland City, which has purchased the painting for an ridiculously exorbitant sum, Karabekian saves Mr. Vonnegut's life. Along the way we are treated to Mr. Vonnegut's drawings of some ofthe offal that that passes for American culture that he's trying empty his head of. This novel is anything but--it's a clarion call for sanity in an increasingly insane world. We should listen.
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