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Hilarious. Damn funny. There are lots of characters - most of them very funny and insignificant. Two main characters - both very funny - Dwayne Hoover, a businessman on the brink of insanity and Kilgor Trout, a science fiction writer who pushes him into full blown insanity. Hahahahaha 🤣🤣
While this process is in the process of happening, the writer shows us a lot of not good, not attractive side to human nature, life and conditions on planet Earth, makes some cringing/gross comments on male/femal ...more
While this process is in the process of happening, the writer shows us a lot of not good, not attractive side to human nature, life and conditions on planet Earth, makes some cringing/gross comments on male/femal ...more
Bizarre, wildly creative and hilarious, Breakfast of Champions is Vonnegut at his flippant, disrespectful and insightful best. Tons of fun. It has a very contemporary meta-novel feel although published 33 years ago.
Kilgore Trout is an aging unknown science fiction writer whose work has only been "published" as filler in pornographic magazines and other assorted publications. When an obscure arts festival in the Midwestern town of Midland City offers him an honorarium for appearing he hitch hikes cross country from Manhattan to attend. Dwayne Hoover, one of the most prominent citizens of Midland City, is having an odd day which winds to a close with him drinking in a hotel cocktail lounge when Trout arrives
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One of the weirdest book but i enjoyed it.
“Kilgore Trout once wrote a short story which was a dialogue between two pieces of yeast. They were discussing the possible purposes of life as they ate sugar and suffocated in their own excrement. Because of their limited intelligence, they never came close to guessing that they were making champagne.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
“Kilgore Trout once wrote a short story which was a dialogue between two pieces of yeast. They were discussing the possible purposes of life as they ate sugar and suffocated in their own excrement. Because of their limited intelligence, they never came close to guessing that they were making champagne.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
Apr 28, 2012
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