Breakfast of Champions

or, Goodbye blue Monday!

303 pages

English language

Published May 11, 1999 by Dial Press Trade Paperback.

ISBN:
978-0-385-33420-4
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OCLC Number:
41520225

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3 stars (4 reviews)

Breakfast Of Champions is vintage Vonnegut. One of his favorite characters, aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. The result is murderously funny satire as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth.From the Trade Paperback edition.

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3 stars

I'm having a hard time deciding whether I liked this book less than the rest of Vonnegut's, or such time has passed since my Vonnegut phase that I wouldn't like others either anymore. Regardless, it didn't click: the ratio of insight to connecting narrative seemed off, such that the book felt like a disjointed series of one-liners.

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  • Science fiction
  • Fiction
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