By Abby K.
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. is a sad story of two men, Kilgore Trout, an unknown but widely published author, and Dwayne Hoover, a car salesman and widower on the verge of a mental breakdown. Kilgore is invited to speak at a writer's convention, even though his work is mostly used a filler for pornographic novels. When Dwayne encounters Kilgore, he demands he get a message from him. Kilgore gives Dwayne a book he wrote, where the reader is the only human, and everyone else is a robot. Reading the book, Dwayne finally snaps, and goes on a violent rampage, hurting his 9-year-old son and 4 other people.
Breakfast of Champions seems to be a very confusing and strange book coming from a very mentally ill man. Knowing what happened to Kurt Vonnegut, and knowing what he had been going through at the time, it is difficult not to read to book knowing that the author himself was also having a mental breakdown. I mentioned above that it was a sad story, because all together, the story wasn't very enjoyable. A lot of the narration seemed to have little to no direction, and the characters themselves seemed like they wanted to be put out of their own misery. Grammatically, the book is fine. The story just wasn't something I enjoyed.
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