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jaimeshotsauce 's review for:
Breakfast of Champions
by Kurt Vonnegut
I try so hard to enjoy Vonnegut. I mean, I have 2 degrees in English so you would think he would be one of my favorite authors, right? No. Absolutely not. And it makes me feel like a fraud and an intellectual failure. I’m sure Vonnegut would enjoy that. I tried really hard to like this book. I really did. I forced myself to read it and digest the words and to come to an understanding with why he uses such offensive language to describe women and African-Americans. I realize part of it is the time in which it was written and part of it is his, sad, pathetic, aggressive, white man, sense of humor. I guess at least now I can say I’ve read the book if it ever comes up in polite conversation. But if polite conversation is going to involve discussing Vonnegut then I am pretty sure I am going to avoid polite conversation at all costs.