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Breakfast Of Champions (Vintage Classics) [Kindle Edition]

Kurt Vonnegut (Author), Jr. Vonnegut Kurt (Illustrator)
4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
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"Vonnegut performs considerable complex magic... Fresh, funny, outrageous...he very nearly levitates" (New York Times )

"A great deal of wit and playfulness...an entire universe of disorder is distilled" (Guardian )

"Outrageous, witty, thought-provoking, unputdownable, scintillating, invigorating, ennobling, enlightening and masterly" (Spectator )

"Brilliant... It seems, at times, as if Voltaire has returned to satirise the horrors of plastic, disposable America" (Sunday Times )

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'After Vonnegut, everything else seems a bit tame' Spectator
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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 2056 KB
  • Print Length: 322 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0385334206
  • Publisher: Vintage Digital; New Ed edition (30 Sep 2010)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B0043D2D50
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • X-Ray: Not Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #97,308 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Buy it now. 11 Sep 2005
By "woody5131"
Format:Paperback
I'm not entirely sure how or why I came across this delightful book, but I am thankful that I did. The illustrations really do help to elevate this book into utter hillarity, as do the insane characters, which upon first impression don't seem central to the plot at all. Eventually though, everything comes together in what has to be one of the most bizarre endings I have ever read. Things that happen in this book just dont occur in other books. One of these things for example, is Vonneguts actual omnipotent presence in the book, he places himself in the story (with all the characters he has created at his mercy) to describe it like this in an amzon review does not do it justice.

Alltogether a briliant read, Happy 50th Kurt.

And so on.

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Beyond the Postmodern Pleasurezone 5 July 2001
By A Customer
Format:Paperback
This is it, this is the book that proves that literature still has something to offer. Vonnegut's style easily peaks in Breakfast of Champions, with the most humorous pathos known to man, making even satiric masters like Swift green with envy. Through his almost child like perception of modernity, Vonnegut strips down life to its bare essentials, and shows humanity for the inhumane thing it is. Vonnegut is the only man who can make me laugh whilst depressing me at the same.
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41 of 46 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars The Meeting of "Fabulously Well-To-Do" and "Doodley-Squat" 16 April 2004
By Michael Crane
Format:Paperback
You know that anything goes once you pick up a work by the zany and terrific Kurt Vonnegut. The man knows how to dish up satire like none other. He'll spew out his complaints about the government, the world, people, etc., and instead of making it sound like a bunch of inane ranting he uses all of that to create a crazy world filled with outrageous characters and situations. "Breakfast of Champions" is an off-the-wall novel that is about 300 pages of pure hilarity and comedic chaos. Some of the most outrageous characters lie within this masterpiece.

Listen: This story revolves mainly around two characters. There's Kilgore Trout who is an aging and bitter sci-fi writer that nobody has ever heard of (except for one person). His stories have only appeared in very adult magazines. So naturally, he has "doodley-squat" to show for it. The other person that this story is about is a car dealer by the name of Dwayne Hoover, a man that everyone in town considers a "fabulously well-to-do" person. Dwayne is losing his mind and is ever so gracefully slipping into the cozy and wonderful world of insanity. What pushes him over the edge will take place when the two meet and Hoover takes one of Trout's literary works as reality. The results are unforgettable and hilariously disturbing in this dark and offbeat tale of the flawed human beings who are destroying Mother Earth.

This amazingly written book is completely ADDICTING. I easily finished it within a week. Once you start you do not want to stop reading until you have finished. Very rarely does a book have the power to make me laugh aloud so frequently and carelessly. People must've thought I was on something when they saw me laugh so uncontrollably while reading this in public. Vonnegut's commentary as the overall storyteller provides us with such an enriching voice that really is the star of the story. He has also created some of the most memorable and certifiably insane characters ever to be witnessed by the world of fiction. Vonnegut cleverly attacks everything that is wrong in society and he does it in such a funny and witty way. His illustrations also add a lot to the story as well.

Reading a book like "Breakfast of Champions" reminds me why I want to be a writer. It also reminds me why we read in the first place. It is definitely a classic that stands on its own and will never EVER be duplicated. If you're looking for a "fabulously well-to-do" satirist that will never conform to the norm, Kurt Vonnegut is your man. If you have not read this book yet, I highly encourage you to check it out a.s.a.p.! It may not be your ordinary novel, but that's more the reason to read it, now isn't it? A definite new favourite that I will read again and again. -Michael Crane

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5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome
What can I say - I love Vonnegut's work and always have done. This particular novel is a must for those who loved Slaughterhouse 5 as it's pretty much a stylistic run-on from that... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Fute
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful stuff
I first read this novel 30 years ago. It is undiminished by the passage of time and remains a sharp, true lens through which Vonnegut examines and dissects the inhuman condition. Read more
Published 2 months ago by G. Robinson
5.0 out of 5 stars Flipping great.
Upon reading page 202 I laughed for three full minutes.

For such an effect it would be recommended to read the preceding pages first. Read more
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3.0 out of 5 stars It's a book, Jim
So, I'm not quite sure what I made of this book.

I read it a while ago now and it stayed with me for a while. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Very Very Very Funny!
This book is very very very funny. It is written to explain America to someone who has no knowledge of it, illustrated as needed. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Kurtz So Good
Possibly Vonnegut's masterpiece, no one can write of the human race with such affection and at the same time, antipathy. Beautifully profound, but beware of the bad chemicals!
Published 11 months ago by Mr. William R. Parkes
2.0 out of 5 stars Dog's dinner
Part memoir, part novel, part experimental meta-narrative, "Breakfast of Champions" is a jumbled assortment of literary devices and imagination rolled into a book peppered with... Read more
Published 11 months ago by Noel
2.0 out of 5 stars Despairingly bleak
I'd always heard Vonnegut had an ability to 'create' a new type of book but this new genre leaves me with a bitter taste in a my mouth. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Joseph Cantillon
4.0 out of 5 stars fun
Breakfast of Champions perfectly balances cynicism, the deconstruction of fiction and comedy. His cynicism is never self-righteous 'cause he turns it into a joke. Read more
Published on 16 Feb 2011 by Max Coombes
4.0 out of 5 stars Vonnegut's unique mixture of hilarity and bitterness
Breakfast of Champions was Vonnegut's self-described "fiftieth birthday present to himself", and it's a more self-indulgent and loosely constructed book than his earlier novels. Read more
Published on 1 Aug 2010 by Paul Bowes
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