Breakfast of Champions
Total Points
#157
- Pages
- 302
- Published
- May 1st, 1973
- Genres
- American Science Fiction Humor
Breakfast of Champions (1973) provides frantic, scattershot satire and a collage of Vonnegut’s obsessions. His recurring cast of characters and American landscape was perhaps the most controversial of his canon; it was felt by many at the time to be a disappointing successor to Slaughterhouse-Five, which had made Vonnegut’s literary reputation. The core of the novel is Kilgore Trout, a familiar...
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Jan 5th, 2018
I had never read Vonnegut until the list....will read everything!!!!
Aug 18th, 2017
I enjoyed the first half of the book, but got lost during the second half unfortunately. I loved Cat's Cradle so I'm surprised this one was not my cup of tea. Worth a read though!
Sep 21st, 2015
Jul 30th, 2013
read it. loved it. forgot, read it again. still can't remember all of the great religious teachings held in this book, but i'm sure i'll read it again, love it, forget, and repeat.
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