Breakfast of Champions

audio cassette

English language

Published March 2, 2004 by Caedmon.

ISBN:: 978-0-06-056497-1
OCLC Number:: 54755503

(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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2 stars

I can see why it's a successful book and I can understand why people would have eaten it up in the same way Robert Crumb captured minds. Despite this I felt a great distance from it. The humor and absurdities didn't break the shell of society to reveal cracks of honest truth, they felt like a cartoonist's caricature work. The themes were explored, but without heart.