Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut

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Original Title: Breakfast of Champions

ISBN: 0385334206
ISBN13: 9780385334204
Autor: Kurt Vonnegut
Rating: 4.2 of 5 stars (1595) counts
Original Format: Paperback, 302 pages
Download Format: PDF, RTF, ePub, CHM, MP3.
Published: September 23rd 2009 / by Dell Publishing / (first published 1973)
Language: English
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Description:

In Breakfast of Champions, one of Kurt Vonneguts most beloved characters, the aging writer
Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. What
follows 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.

About Author:

Kurt Vonnegut, Junior was an American novelist, satirist, and most recently, graphic artist. He was
recognized as New York State Author for 2001-2003.
He was born in Indianapolis, later the setting for many of his novels. He attended Cornell
University from 1941 to 1943, where he wrote a column for the student newspaper, the Cornell
Daily Sun. Vonnegut trained as a chemist and worked as a journalist before joining the U.S. Army
and serving in World War II.
After the war, he attended University of Chicago as a graduate student in anthropology and also
worked as a police reporter at the City News Bureau of Chicago. He left Chicago to work in
Schenectady, New York in public relations for General Electric. He attributed his unadorned writing
style to his reporting work.
His experiences as an advance scout in the Battle of the Bulge, and in particular his witnessing of
the bombing of Dresden, Germany whilst a prisoner of war, would inform much of his work. This
event would also form the core of his most famous work, Slaughterhouse-Five, the book which
would make him a millionaire. This acerbic 200-page book is what most people mean when they
describe a work as "Vonnegutian" in scope.
Vonnegut was a self-proclaimed humanist and socialist (influenced by the style of Indiana's own
Eugene V. Debs) and a lifelong supporter of the American Civil Liberties Union.

The novelist is known for works blending satire, black comedy and science fiction, such as
Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), Cat's Cradle (1963), and Breakfast of Champions (1973)

Other Editions:

- Breakfast of Champions (Kindle Edition)

- Breakfast of Champions (Paperback)

- Breakfast of Champions (Paperback)

- Breakfast of Champions (Mass Market Paperback)

- Breakfast of Champions (Mass Market Paperback)

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Rewiews:
Aug 06, 2008
Honey
Rated it: liked it
I am about to finish Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions. I checked out the book from the
Multnomah County Library four weeks ago. I've never read anything by Kurt Vonnegut before. The
book looks like this:

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I'm enjoying the book because it feels easy to read. I'm not enjoying the book because parts of it
induce discomfort. There are many things in the universe that make me feel the opposite of
discomfort. One of those things is a lava lamp.

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A lava lamp emi

I am about to finish Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions. I checked out the book from the
Multnomah County Library four weeks ago. I've never read anything by Kurt Vonnegut before. The
book looks like this:

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I'm enjoying the book because it feels easy to read. I'm not enjoying the book because parts of it
induce discomfort. There are many things in the universe that make me feel the opposite of
discomfort. One of those things is a lava lamp.

*************

A lava lamp emits light but also contains a bulbous wax that forms, rises, and falls with the help of
heat provided by an incandescent bulb inside the base. The lava lamp reminds people of the 60's,
when life revolved around love. My lava lamp looks like this:

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*************

Listen: On the base of the lava lamp is a sticker. The sticker is a picture of me and Agent in jail. In
the picture, both of us stare out forever from behind bars. Agent and I are not actually in jail, but if
we were, we'd probably be happy anyway.
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20 comments

Ron Enderland
Brilliant review!!! I love how Vonnegut's depiction of an asshole looks just like Wal Mart's logo,
which they probably paid someone at least 100K to d
Brilliant review!!! I love how Vonnegut's depiction of an asshole looks just like Wal Mart's logo,
which they probably paid someone at least 100K to design. :-D

Jun 02, 2016 07:59AM

John
Love this review. It's nice to read that fragmenty Vonnegut style again.

Sep 03, 2016 01:01AM