A review by moseslh
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut

4.0

In Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut is, as always, irreverent and incredibly weird. Vonnegut keeps the reader very aware that this is a work of fiction. The author/narrator of the book is also a character in the book, but one who frequently reminds the reader that he created all the other characters with whom he interacts. Breakfast of Champions is far from a politically correct novel, but everything is coated in such a thick layer of irony that I found many things acceptable that may have ordinarily offended me. This book seemed to me to be some sort of a call for help by Vonnegut. His author/narrator/character pretty clearly suffers from mental illness, and I frankly worry about Vonnegut's well-being at the time of his writing the book, but he created something pretty amazing.
Not appropriate for children.