Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut’s Breakfast of Champions or Goodbye Blue Monday is a rather depressing bit of business. It is the story of a writer and the trouble he causes all his creations, apparently to entertain himself. Though it is never really clear if the Creator is entertained or not. He seems as sad and pathetic as the characters whose strings he pulls. There is madness and mayhem and a lot of talk about bad chemicals and so on. The book is written in an odd style, even for the great and odd Kurt Vonnegut. Breakfast of Champions is about a number…

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