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A review by seano312
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
4.0
If you take this book as piece of narrative prose, it's probably only three stars.
If you take this book as a collection of thoughtful ideas, meant to make you think and expand your consciousness, it's probably five stars.
So I averaged it as four stars.
I remember reading bits of this book as a young man. I recall thinking it was funny and dirty and didn't make any sense.
Which is why I believe that Vonnegut isn't for young people. Or at least not young white cis het privileged males that grew up in small towns and didn't know anything about the world.
I had to grow up a bit to learn what all oppressed people know by heart. We live in an imperfect world and things which are initially "funny and dirty and didn't make sense" are really sad and deep and make perfect, if horrible, sense.
The book is funny, much like a wise man will use humor to show you truth. It's also pretty meta, and I think this somehow detracts from the story.
OTOH, this book has the greatest number of "aha" moments I've read in a Vonnegut book.
Definitely worth reading.
If you take this book as a collection of thoughtful ideas, meant to make you think and expand your consciousness, it's probably five stars.
So I averaged it as four stars.
I remember reading bits of this book as a young man. I recall thinking it was funny and dirty and didn't make any sense.
Which is why I believe that Vonnegut isn't for young people. Or at least not young white cis het privileged males that grew up in small towns and didn't know anything about the world.
I had to grow up a bit to learn what all oppressed people know by heart. We live in an imperfect world and things which are initially "funny and dirty and didn't make sense" are really sad and deep and make perfect, if horrible, sense.
The book is funny, much like a wise man will use humor to show you truth. It's also pretty meta, and I think this somehow detracts from the story.
OTOH, this book has the greatest number of "aha" moments I've read in a Vonnegut book.
Definitely worth reading.