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Breakfast of Champions
by Kurt Vonnegut
by Kurt Vonnegut
Jason's review
bookshelves: dead-tree-edition, for-kindle, 2011, reviewed
May 16, 11
bookshelves: dead-tree-edition, for-kindle, 2011, reviewed
Read in May, 2011
He was a graduate of West Point. West Point was a military academy that turned young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war.
Another brilliant ride through Vonnegut-land. Part comedy, part searing social satire, this book has its fourth wall broken more than any other book I’ve read. At times, I may not have understood where it was going or what the “point” was, but it certainly left me satisfied. Also, I am now completely convinced of Mr. Vonnegut’s influence over Douglas Adams.
The Creator of the Universe had put a rattle on its tail. The Creator had also given it front teeth which were hypodermic syringes filled with deadly poison. Sometimes I wonder about the Creator of the Universe.
And so on.
Another brilliant ride through Vonnegut-land. Part comedy, part searing social satire, this book has its fourth wall broken more than any other book I’ve read. At times, I may not have understood where it was going or what the “point” was, but it certainly left me satisfied. Also, I am now completely convinced of Mr. Vonnegut’s influence over Douglas Adams.
The Creator of the Universe had put a rattle on its tail. The Creator had also given it front teeth which were hypodermic syringes filled with deadly poison. Sometimes I wonder about the Creator of the Universe.
And so on.
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I suspect a lot of DNA's ideas got seeded after The Sirens of Titan.