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isaacjohnson 's review for:
Breakfast of Champions
by Kurt Vonnegut
DNF. I just couldn’t force myself through the rest of this one. I found his style to be grating and two dimensional throughout the whole book, making it impossible for me to connect with any plot or characters. Also, I’m sure the content of this book was radical and much-needed at the time of publishing, but at this point I’m sick of hearing about all the terrible ways our world works.
I enjoyed slaughterhouse five much more, and maybe that’s because it’s just more famous. But I think with that book, Vonnegut’s narrative voice actually serves a purpose. His flat, matter-of-fact tone contrasts the horrors of war very well. It also makes a statement against media sensationalizing war. But for this book, it didn’t seem like there was any real reason to write that way. To me, it felt lazy and scatter brained.
An aspect of the book I did enjoy was how a poor, radical artist was in a sense sponsored by a megarich guy on the opposite end of the socioeconomic hierarchy. This same dynamic happens all the time in the ‘fine-art world’ and it’s so ironic. Maybe he would have delved further into this relationship later in the book, but I wasn’t willing to wait to find out.
I enjoyed slaughterhouse five much more, and maybe that’s because it’s just more famous. But I think with that book, Vonnegut’s narrative voice actually serves a purpose. His flat, matter-of-fact tone contrasts the horrors of war very well. It also makes a statement against media sensationalizing war. But for this book, it didn’t seem like there was any real reason to write that way. To me, it felt lazy and scatter brained.
An aspect of the book I did enjoy was how a poor, radical artist was in a sense sponsored by a megarich guy on the opposite end of the socioeconomic hierarchy. This same dynamic happens all the time in the ‘fine-art world’ and it’s so ironic. Maybe he would have delved further into this relationship later in the book, but I wasn’t willing to wait to find out.