Mike's review
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
Very readable and amusing in parts. A little irritating in others. I wonder whether Vonnegut's eccentricity didn't get the better of him on this one. Don't get me wrong, I like that the author materializes himself into the action towards the end, guiding the reader through his decisions about the characters he's created. It provides a double-shot of irony since Dwayne Hoover comes to believe he's the only person in the world with free will right about the time Vonnegut puts himself in the scene.
Still, it does seem to want to go off on a tangent sometimes, and the constant references to vital statistics and appendages don't feel quite right to me as they only appear half way through the book. Or maybe I should just accept that it's 'experimental'. Hmmmm...
Still, it does seem to want to go off on a tangent sometimes, and the constant references to vital statistics and appendages don't feel quite right to me as they only appear half way through the book. Or maybe I should just accept that it's 'experimental'. Hmmmm...
