Breakfast of Champions

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Summary: Breakfast of Champions was a deep book
Review: I believe the book "Breakfast of Champions" to be a thoughtfull and fascinating work of literature. I loved it just as i loved cats cradle and other books by kurt vonnegut. i recomend this book to highschool students and those above highschool. it was a great read.

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Summary: Vonnegut at his best!
Review: I purchased this novel after finishing Cat's Cradle, another Vonnegut novel. Cat's Cradle was the most enlightening and thought provoking thing I've ever experienced, and somehow Breakfast of Champions has topped it. This has been the most amazing piece of literature I've come across, breaking all the rules of "clear thoughts, obvious direction, and plot". This book has none of these unless you want to think it does, and is basically random thoughts from Vonnegut's head. If you've ever wanted to know what it was like to crawl in someone else's brain, this is the book for you. Discursive but not in a rambling manner, Vonnegut hits a homerun with Breakfast Of Champions.

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Summary: Have a martini........
Review: Kurt at his best... Great story, Vonnegut at his very funniest....great characters.... as the others have stated..it is NOT racist, it just has characters that are racists in it...that happens in America... look past that N word, and enjoy this classic work

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Summary: Vonnegut's Masterpiece
Review: This is the story of two skinny old white guys "on a planet that was dying fast." We watch Dwayne Hoover, the insane used-car dealer, and Kilgore Trout, the brilliant but almost completely unknown writer and installer of vinyl siding, drawing nearer and nearer to each other as the story progresses. But there's another skinny old white guy drawing nearer too.

One of the late 20th century's true masterpieces. Read it, again and again.

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Summary: Supposedly Vintage Vonnegut
Review: but I wouldn't know because this is the only book by Vonnegut that I've read. It's a great book, maybe the best I've read, but Catcher in the Rye and Salem's Lot come close. I'm not gonna say how old I am, because no one would take my comments seriously, but I'm young. It is a great book for people at a young age, but seriously not for the D-student. It's somewhat complex, and in a way philosophical. Vonnegut has constructed a masterfull book full of dry humor and sarcastic wit, but it's serious. Make sure you understand that this isn't a parody, it's an insight into our society. With the pictures of "wide open beavers", you may wonder what the hell Kurt was on when he wrote this, but I doubt he was out of it, it all works well together in the end. Anyway, I'm dawdling, so in short, read the book if you think you can.

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Summary: The only great American novel
Review: I first read this book when I was in eleventh grade. In that grade we were studying American literature. I wasn't required to read this slick little number. But, it was easily more brilliant than Song of Solomon, The Awakening, or The Scarlet Letter. This book should be handed out to immigrants entering this country so they can see the way really are. Kurt Vonnegut ignores every law of formal writing and structure to give us this ugly, growling, balls-out,beautiful, American epic.

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Summary: Minimalism of champions
Review: This was my first visit with Kurt Vonnegut. I'm keen now tospend some more time with him although I'll be surprised if he sticksto this spare style in his other books. The drawings in my edition ofthe book are a bit out of place ... but the book shows that you can betremendously effective without big words and flowery prose.

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Summary: hey there
Review: Those of you who scour bookshelves looking for something to become offended about and latch onto should read this book. There's a lot here.

Personally I feel this book can only be digested properly with an open mind and a decent sized sense of humor. Ever since I read this book for a college english assignment I've been thinking and pondering what i've read. I'm not sure i comprehend it completely or ever will but oh well. That's not the point. this book has the ability to completely realign your perception of life and the american way if you let it. it is one of the best books i have ever read and i enjoyed it thouroughly. Of the three Vonnegut novels i've read(BOC, Mother Night, Cat's Cradle) this is my favorite so far.

So long my fellow bokonists. enjoy!

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Summary: vonnegut at his best
Review: this was the first of vonnegut's novels that i read, and i can safely say after reading a few more of his books, that breakfast of champions is truly the quintessential vonnegut. while his other books are all wonderful reads, this book is simply his most powerful work, in terms of social commentary and his own brand of keen wit and sarcastic brilliancy. this novel touches on many relevant topics and at times i was in fact blown away. i don't understand how some other reviewers could criticize this book, unless they simply took it for it's face value and failed to open their minds as to the genius layed out within its pages. i would definitely recommend this book to any fans of great contemporary literature.

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Summary: POWERFUL AND WITTY SOCIAL COMMENTARY
Review: This stands as a classic in contemporary American Fiction. Although I have enjoyed other Vonnegut novels more, none are more cynnical than the timeless BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS. Vonnegut narrates the tale of Dwayne Hoover and Kilgore Trout, two strangers whos paths would cross with devastating consequences. Hoover is a wealthy owner of several business including a car dealership, he is also slowly going mad. Kilogre Trout is a novelist with underappreciated talent. His works only seem to be published in porno rags. While the story of their catastrophic encounter is humurous it serves mainly as a backdrop for Vonnegut's social criticism.

Vonnegut uses BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS to not only ridicule obvious social issues (i.e. racism and pollution to name but a few), He also jabs at those establishments that most Americans would hold sacred. He mocks the founding fathers, explicitly chastising Thomas Jefferson as a man who wrote of the value of freedom while at the same time owning hundreds of slaves. He christens the military academies as institutions whos sole purpouse is to train mindless homicidal maniacs. As poignant as his finger pointing is, it remains evident that Vonnegut's purpouse is to educate and not to instigate.

Having been written over a quarter of a century ago, it is amazing that BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS remains as relevant and enthralling as it was when first published. Read this book with an open mind and you will enjoy it. You need not agree with Vonnegut to appreciate his flair.