Reddit reviews Breakfast of Champions: A Novel

Breakfast of Champions

If you didn't like that, try Breakfast of Champions.

It has nothing to do with that movie of the same name from the 90's.

edit: decade change

One of the truly marvelous things about Vonnegut's books is that they're all like that.

Just an FYI, Breakfast of Champions is my favorite.

And, if you haven't, you must must must read Slaughterhouse Five. I read once that it arose from his viewing of the devastation caused by the bombing of Dresden. I can't say it's the greatest book written in English in the 20th century, but it's not far from it.

The thing about Vonnegut's writing is that it took incredible skill to make his writing seem so simple. It was Pascal who said that if he'd had more time, his letter would've been shorter. But Vonnegut fully understood that concept. The simplicity of his prose, to people who aren't paying attention, might mask the complexity of the ideas behind it.

See, Vonnegut wasn't writing to be artsy or to speak to some glorified idea of an audience. He was talking to us, generally almost always about who we are and what we're doing to ourselves and the planet.

I realize I'm gushing, and I don't praise many people like this, but he was truly a great great writer. And there are reasons why some books are called great.

Fiction: Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut

Non-Fiction: The Hypochondriac's Pocket Guide to Horrible Diseases You Probably Already Have

Ah man, I wanna go to Burning Man soooo badly...

Hm. Looks like you like books, and I always think that books make the best gifts, so...What about [this] (http://www.amazon.com/Vonnegut-volumes-Rosewater-Welcome-Slaughterhouse/dp/B000BVFV48/ref=sr_1_18?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1373428804&sr=1-18&keywords=kurt+vonnegut+collection) It has some of my favorite Vonnegut, although no Breakfast of Champions. Not sure if it's actually cheaper to get the boxed set, but it's an easy way to show all of them at once ;)
Or how about some lighter fare. Terry Pratchett is funny and easy to get into from any book in the series.
Or, I know that people sit around and sing songs sometimes...and that's my favorite part of any get-together! As lots of people know the Beatles, what about this great songbook? It's one of my favorites, and it's got all the chords and lyrics to tons of songs, many that people forget about but still like! (You'll need a good camp guitar to go with it...)(now I'm just thinking of things I brought on my recent camping trip...I just got back so it's fresh in my mind...)

My favorite author, and this is his most fun book even if he has a couple better received books

Bukowski is an amazing author regardless of what succs say.

Great book. Brought the term grok into existence

Really cool graphic novel series

David sedaris is probably the best comedic novelist i've ever read/heard. I recommend audio though because he has great delivery, which is what made him such a popular guest on NPR


selfish gene by dawkins. I know Dawkins is a meme, but this book is actually really good along with a lot of his earlier books.

This is one of the most entertaining and funniest books I've read: http://www.amazon.com/Venus-Half-Shell-Kilgore-Trout/dp/0899683061/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1347328073&sr=1-1&keywords=venus+on+the+half+shell+kilgore+trout I'd also recommend: http://www.amazon.com/Breakfast-Champions-Novel-Kurt-Vonnegut/dp/0385334206/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1347328142&sr=1-1&keywords=breakfast+of+champions+by+kurt+vonnegut

Breakfast of Champions can be read on many levels and is thoroughly enjoyable. Vonnegut books were always on the shelves at my parents' house and I read that and then Venus on the Half Shell fake-ly written by Kilgore Trout (a Vonnegut character) but really done by Philip Jose Farmer -- then I started a long series of science fiction.

no, THIS is the breakfast of champions.