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Title: Breakfast of Runner Ups....
Review: This novel is one of Vonnegut's more acclaimed works, although I would say, in my un-experted opinion, that The Sirens of Titan, Mother Night, and Hocus Pocus are better in many ways than Breakfast of Champions. Sure, Breakfast has many comical sections, however, it fails to answer any real question about human nature, other than the fact that we are innately dumb. The plot twists and turns, leading the reader through Vonnegut's "reality" of modern day society using Kilgore Trout and a used car salesmen as tour guides. Vonnegut plays on all aspects of society, from race, to industrialization, to the fragility of the human mind, and finally to the ability and far reaching possibilities of the imagination. Breakfast is witty and comical, but I recommend some of his other novels if you are looking for the better side of Vonnegut.
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