Breakfast of Champions

Rating:
Summary: A dying planet never seemed like so much fun
Review: 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.