Breakfast of Champions, (Paperback)

from zappa

It's 1972, remember. Authors are playing with the relationship between author as Creator and Creator as defunct. Gunther Grass, in Cat and Mouse (by memory - as I can't find my copy) flings the ski...

from MiaCulpa

Kurt Vonnegut wrote some of the best and most depressing books of the Twentieth Century. I've read three Vonnegut books now and I've needed to go on suicide watch after each one. "Breakfast of Cham...

from maggotbrain

No mistaking it, this is a Vonnegut book. To describe a plot would be hard, as it really just tells the story that leads to a car salesman (and entrepreneur) going a bit bonkers and hitting every o...

from shadowofthewind

Best passages:I think I am trying to make my head as empty as it was when I was born onto this damaged planet fifty years ago.I suspect that this is something most white Americans, and nonwhite Ame...

from 9days

Easily the funniest book I've ever read. Vonnegut's crude (but brilliant) doodles are the highlight. I couldn't turn a page without laughing my backside off. If you've never read a deadpan account ...