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	• Breakfast of Champions Kurt Vonnegut Dial Press Trade Paperback, 1999 - 303 pages average customer review:based on 253 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Trout... better here then in Fish and Stream

If you're an advit Vonnegut reader you know damn well who Kilgoure Trout. So it's no suprise you want to find a little bit more about him. This book is the definitive Kilgoure Trout book I believe, and has the same effect on this character that the Enacapatian Proclamantion would have had on Kunto Kenta. Vonnegut frees his character in this book, Which I found to be something no other author could pull off.

Plus Bill, Trout's bird is quite possibly the greatest Bird in a book sense Robinson Crusoe's Parrot.

It's worth your time - if not for the cross dressing Harry LaSabre alone.

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Not his best (in my opinion)

Although this book has it's high points, like Vonnegut's humorous observations about America, it isn't as good as Cat's Cradle or Slaugherhouse-Five. The reason for this is because the author literally tells you how the book ends, numerous times. Very disappointing.

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very entertaining and moving!

This book has a lot of extremely offensive language. Once you get past that, the story is a wonderful mix of humor and real human insight. It helped me appreciate life.

I highly recommend watching it WITH the movie--like, read the book, then immediately watch the movie, then watch the movie again while holding the book in front of you. It's even better if you can listen to the Flaming Lips at the same time. No, really, I'm serious, try it!

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A dying planet never seemed like so much fun

Using his unique style, Vonnegut tells the galaxy about our dying planet. He sees it as a hideous mess of robotic creatures programmed to destroy themselves, specifically through destruction by American capitalism and racism. At times this does seem a bit cliche, but his style is anything but. It's funny, original, and at times very personal.

The best parts of the book are when he literally draws himself into the story. He tries to be a good God to his characters, but seems to fail as our Creator must have. It's not as good as Slaughter House Five, but his shocking style is in strong form.

For those who want to pick up the audio version for the Vonnegut interview- don't. In the beginning of the interview Vonnegut and his interviewer both reveal that they havent read the book in a while, then proceed to talk about completely unrelated topics which go nowhere. Tucci does a fine job of reading though.

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Everybody needs to read a book with pictures now and then

Although this novel was at times childish, shocking, humorous, and perhaps even a bit disturbing, I think Vonnegut effectively conveyed his feelings concerning the more peculiar social fixations and oddities that are prevalent in our time. However, what moved me most out of all of Vonnegut's blatant strikes were his remarks concerning the value of characters in literature. Of course, almost anybody reading this book can pick out a few characters who they consider to be "main" or key characters consistently throughout the novel, but Vonnegut raises the question of the equality of characters in a novel. While Vonnegut was not completely successful in blurring the status of the main characters in his novel, I felt like his attempt at creating his supporting characters as equals was well done and I commend him for it. I'm sure Vonnegut realizes that a story in which all characters are equal in detail/depth/development would destroy the staggered levels of complexity that make literature so fascinating, but raising the question in really caused me to stop and think. Vonnegut's illustrations prove why he's a writer rather than an artist, but I guess I appreciate how the drawings made the pages go by more quickly.

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