4Dec/095
Breakfast of Champions or Goodbye Blue Monday!: A Novel
- ISBN13: 9780385334204
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
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.Amazon.com Review
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December 4th, 2009 - 21:12
I didn’t read the book, but I saw the movie (which by the way filmed near my hometown). It stars Bruce Willis as the wacky Dwane Hoover. the movie to me was OK
Rating: 2 / 5
December 4th, 2009 - 22:44
One thing about the author is, he loves the “n-word” and he hates blacks. I never could understand how people who call themselves imaginative creators take such pride in alienating select audiences. Don’t you want people to buy the darn book??? You effectively killed your black audience, Kurt. Now, I’m a smart man with a high tolerance for stupidity and wacked opinions and am often able to find art in the sublime. From another black man’s promptings, I bought the book and read it. I was disgusted. No doubt, Quentin Tarrantino is clammoring for the rights to make the film. If you don’t like blacks and you’re the type of person who feels that nobody ever gets your jokes, this “book” is for you.
Rating: 1 / 5
December 5th, 2009 - 00:18
I was sooooooo dissapointed since I am a big fan of Vonnegut’s and love his writing style (except in this book), not to mention my favorite character Kilgore Trout. I read some of the reviews and decided to ignore the negative ones since there is so many people out there who clearly miss Vonnegut’s point. It is racist, sexist and towards the end he just rambles on pointlessly about things … that have nothing to do with what he is talking about. I am used to being shocked by Vonnegut but this was too much. DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK, it is a waste of time and money.
Rating: 1 / 5
December 5th, 2009 - 02:32
This review is for the audio CD version of the novel. I read the book for the first time 20+ years ago. At the time, we lived in a different world. As a teenager, I thought Vonnegut was cool, and I devoured this novel. 20+ years later, I can no longer stomach it. Back when it was hip to bash American and all it stands for, this book seemed important. I can see now that it is not. Don’t bother reading this.
Rating: 1 / 5
December 5th, 2009 - 04:39
I’d say it was a book purposely written stupidly to appear clever. I found it extremely dull. I gagged out 1/2 way through it. I gurantee I can write better than this. If an unknown author had submitted this story to a publisher, it would have been returned with a rejection form letter.
Rating: 1 / 5