Breakfast of Champions

""They were doing their best to live like people invented in story books. This was the reason Americans shot each other so often: It was a convenient literary device for ending short stories and books." Took me a bit to get into but the second half was well worth it. "

"December read…not a fan altogether there were a few place that were interesting. Read it as it was mentioned in a book I read"

"Kurt is a little guy and i love him"

"Funny but sharp and biting satire of modern American society"

"I thought Vonnegut was quite cool before reading this book. Some racial slurs were said, which I understand because that's how they described such people at the time. You even see racial slurs in period pieces that were anti-racism. I think Vonnegut was going for the same effect. What really threw me off however was when he created a new derogatory way to describe a race! He described, to whichever extraterrestial reading this book, Vietnamese people as, "Yellow robots which live off of rice," this was meant to be comedic. Yes, Vonnegut is a philosophical guy but if be had any knowledge of ethics, he'd know that introducing a new, horrible perspective on a minority damages their quality of life and uplifts his own. Yes we're all hunks of meat on a rock but can we have the option of not living in agony?"

"Vonnegut is a very special author, with a very special outlook. Satire, humor, compassion, and dealing with life. Start with this title, or start with Slaughterhouse-5, or really any Vonnegut. If one of them speaks to you, read another, and another, and so on. My favorite is Cat's Cradle."

"- [ ] Two characters (I assume from previous books) meet and it results in the downfall of the wealthy car salesman (Dwayne Hoover) and the uprising of a struggling science fiction writer (Kilgore Trout) - [ ] Lots of drawings including 2 assholes (pg. 5, pg. 72) - [ ] Book started good and ended good but the middle felt empty, lots of small ideas that didn’t add that much to the story - [ ] Book is more about ideas than one single story - [ ] Message to Dwayne Hoover was made up by author who made up Dwayne Hoover so it was a message from the creator of the universe? - [ ] Author has a god complex"

"No I didn’t like it"

"Kurt Vonnegut has a whimsical, dark, humoristic style that i enjoy very very much. It's a good read, but it does use racial slurs so beware if that kind of thing upsets you."

"The start of this book was very strong, but dwindled quickly by the 40% mark. I wanted to enjoy it so much more than I did, but felt like the entire middle was unnecessary and quite frankly boring to read. I didn’t find the ending or the climax of the novel to be worth absolutely slogging through the rest of it."