Ryan's review
Breakfast of Champions
by Kurt Vonnegut
Ryan's review
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
Ryan's review
rating:
Another Vonnegut favorite, after reading SH5, I was lured into reading Breakfast. At the advice of my Step-father, I eagerly began to read what I found to be another Vonnegut classic. The characters, the themes, and the black, saddistic and corrupt humor are all accounted for and appealing. Vonnegut 100 percent. The humorous illustrations are bizzarre as they mare the pages of this read. A bucket of fried chicken is scribbled underneath a passage describing "niggers" love of chicken. A potent jab at society made humorous and strange. Or perhaps Vonnegut's description of a earth "cow" is telling enough. Bizzarre and often surreal, I believe this to be Vonnegut's most personal novel after SH5 I have read. Afterall the protagonist(asshole) is a widowed husband only because his wife ingested DRANO. Thus corroding and incinerating her entrails. What a swell suicide, just like Vonnegut's own mother. When Vonnegut also creates a deus ex machina of a twist by writing himsel...more
