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Summary: Vonnegut's best
Review: Speaking as one who has just finished reading _Timequake_ (his latest) and thus can be accurately qualified as one who has read all of Vonnegut's "major" works, I can say with authority that _Breakfast of Champions_ is is best. Simple on the outside, yet with far-reaching questions of where we are headed, the book is chillingly accurate in modern-day, "progressive" 1997, even though it was written sometime in the early 70s. This book should be read by anyone who has ever wondered about technology, New York city, or the finer works of this gifted novelist. Definitely a 10. [And lest I forget -- the book comes with pictures, interspersed liberally through the pages; rough-looking and hand-drawn though they may be, they contribute a fanciful air to the already-impressive work. They, too, are definitely a plus.]
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Summary: If you haven't read this yet then what is your problem?
Review: This is Vonnegut at his best. He is a master satirist who knows how to control his characters to do his will. This is Vonnegut's masterpiece featuring one of literatures most dumped on characters since Job, Kilgore Trout. You have to read this one. If you haven't, then what is your problem?
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Summary: A dangerous book.
Review: Never before have I read a book that so much wanted to drive me irrevocably insane. If you have tasted some of Vonnegut's other works and have enjoyed them, then read this. It's certainly my favourite, out of all the great books in his collection.
In it Dwayne Hoover, owner of a luxury car dealership in Midland City, is slowly going insane. He is on a crash-course towards bloody violence, mitigated by Kilgore Trout - writer of psychotic science-fiction tales. In his almost juvenile, simplistic prose, Vonnegut takes us on a harrowing ride through the mind of two lunatics, bouncing off the peripheral characters like murderous pinballs.
So, if you've acclimatized yourself to the utter genius of Kurt Vonnegut, then read on. If not, then perhaps it's best to test the waters first with his other works. You may never be the same again.
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Summary: Goodbye Blue Monday, and a discussion about averages.
Review: Poo-tee-tweet? Let me ask you one question. What would you ask your creator, if given the chance? Vonnegut gives us his best writing and insight, in this incredible Novel. The characters are brilliant, the setting is clear, and I now believe, that humans, are indeed robots. Machines. oh, to be young again.
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Summary: Now I know the average length!
Review: This novel, Goodbye Blue Monday, is among the finest literay pieces, I have ever read. Anything, and everything, which is great about Vonnegut, is in this book. Great characters, satire, sex, and sci-fi. After reading this, I feel the same as Dwayne Hoover, that everyone IS a robot, and they must be taken down. Poo-tee-weet? Make me young! Make me young! Tell me one thing, what would you ask your creator, if given the chance
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Summary: Author-meets-reader in a humorous whirlwind
Review: "Breakfast of Champions" was Vonnegut's true follow-up to "Slaughterhouse 5" and brought a big sigh of relief to those confused by "Happy Birthday, Wanda June" and "Between Time and Timbuktoo." It is Kilgore Trout's show here, and fans will find Vonnegut's principal character in rare form as he journeys to a celebration in his honor, spurred on by his one reader, the famous Eliot Rosewater. There is also another story about a used car salesman losing his mind and wreaking havoc on the good times.
Of course, the novel is probably most famous for a character that comes in late in the novel, one Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Here, Vonnegut does his best Pirendello and confronts his world head on. An interesting and often hysterical time; its just too bad that much of the early part of the book is tedious. If you can hold on until the book gets rolling, you'll have the ride of your life.
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Summary: Funniest book I've ever read!
Review: While simplistic in mechanics and
vocabulary, this book never fails to shed
light on every idea anyone ever thought.
In short, BRILLIANT. A handbook
to life, you wouldn't have to go to school,
if you read this book the day you were
supposed to be starting kindergarten.
You're life would be as dysfunctional as all
of Vonnegut's characters' are, but hey...
Where's the downside???!!!
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Summary: One of my Top Ten Favourite Books.
Review: I think what stands the most about this book, after all these years, is the intrepid, and literal, author intrusion throughout the story. Vonnegut's cameo character near the end was both unpredictible and welcomed. Truly a brilliant book--and one of the few I truly blame for getting me to write my own. --Darren Jame
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Summary: A great read for the literate and some-what illiterate!
Review: Breakfast of Champions is a great read. It addresses you as a three-year old and explains even the simplest concepts in new and hilarious ways. It is vulgar and attention-grabbing. His simple drawings can draw a hearty laugh, even from the dullest of people. Well, maybe I shouldn't go that far, but they are quite entertaining.
This book is good for when your mind has an overload on intelligent thought.
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Summary: If you read this one you have to read them all...
Review: Vonnegut is a crazy old man. All of his books are related in some way or another. It will be a character in the book that was talked about previously as if he was gossiping. He never really has a plot to any of his stories but they are always immensly entertaining. In Breakfast of Champions he tells a story of a car salesman whos wife kills herself and he ends up going crazy. This is a book you will not want to set down till you finish. But the shorter chapters make it to where you can read it without too much of a problem..
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