Book Title:

Breakfast of Champions

Author:

Kurt Vonnegut

Reviewer:

Silas Mann

Summary:

The author attempted to make every single person in the book have the exact same importance. Yet there were three people that the book was really focused. A man called Kilgore Trout, a man called Dwayne Hoover and the author himself. Trout is an author who can only get his works published in pornography magazines. The magazine publishers are just looking for text to give more bulk and make their magazines seem more than just raunchy pictures. But the illustrations for Trout's stories have nothing to do with his stories at all. Dwayne Hoover is slowly going insane after reading a story written by Trout. Trout had framed the story in the form of a letter, directed at the reader, that indicated that the reader was the only real person and that everyone else around him were only machines programmed to interact with him. Hoover took this literally, and became paranoid and insane. The book slowly is leading up to the point where the author, Hoover, and Trout will all meet in the end. And so on.

Opinion:

 The book is completely insane. There are very few people that I would not recommend this book to. The style of writing is so unique that I highly doubt any other author has used it. For example. While reading you will find pictures that the author has inserted to illustrate points. You will find that he never ends sentences because he believes that every sentence could keep on going. He will always end with et cetera or and so on. Every single character has importance; as long as he mentions the name of someone he tells about their job and family. He doesn't through away extra characters. He doesn’t see characters as expendable. He will also tie characters together in a sort of chaos-theory style. It is quite a remarkable book.

Rating:

5 stars out of 5