Breakfast of Champions

sorabji.com: Best book you've ever read: Breakfast of Champions
By Chordata on Saturday, May 16, 1998 - 12:58 pm:
    Every time I pick up Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., I have a fabulously fun time reading it.

    I particularly enjoy Vonnegut's writing of himself into the book toward the end, when he revels in the fact that he is authoring the book, therefore the characters do what he chooses them to do; However, they have developed a sense of autonomy such that the story keeps unfolding without his prompting or control.

    Of course, the drawings are fun, too. Especially the asshole.
By Holden on Thursday, May 28, 1998 - 02:50 pm:
    Breakfast of Champions is fabulous! Also Cat's Cradle and God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater.
By JBG on Tuesday, July 14, 1998 - 03:53 pm:
    I live in the town where the movie was just filmed. Bruse Willis, Nick Nolte, Barbra Hershey, and Glenne Headly will star. I fyou have any questions, write me at wizinoz@hotmail.com
By Chordata on Wednesday, July 15, 1998 - 04:23 am:
    A movie of Breakfast? Fuck. They have to ruin everything.
By Tink on Wednesday, October 28, 1998 - 11:25 pm:

    I love Kurt Vonnegut!! I think that sums it up.... well maybe this is better:
    I would do Kurt if he wasn't so old.....

By Wendell Friday on Friday, November 13, 1998 - 01:56 pm:

    Breakfast of champions is probably my favorite book ever. It intelligently makes fun of everything and has some well drawn charactors. Is that movie coming out, or is it gonna be a crappy tv thing. It's too bad they made it. All of the good humor and voice of the book will be lost in a movie.

By Edgy on Monday, April 15, 2002 - 03:06 am:

    This is one of the most sparkling examples of existentialist writing. When I lend this book out to people, without fail, they complain that the book is anticlimactic. It's the inconsequence of the meeting between Kilgore Trout and Dwayne Hoover that belies the very message of the work: Nobody is watching you. Nobody is making sure that things will work out O.K. Sometimes, when stuff happens, it doesn't mean anything - move on and make the best.