Kurt Vonnegut - Breakfast of Champions

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 240 Kurt Vonnegut - Chapter Twenty Four.mp315.37 MB
 150 Kurt Vonnegut - Chapter Fifteen.mp314.02 MB
 180 Kurt Vonnegut - Chapter Eighteen.mp313.85 MB
 151 Kurt Vonnegut - Chapter Fifteen (Cont.).mp313.53 MB
 200 Kurt Vonnegut - Chapter Twenty.mp313.01 MB
 190 Kurt Vonnegut - Chapter Ninteen.mp312.96 MB
 020 Kurt Vonnegut - Chapter Two.mp312.87 MB
 191 Kurt Vonnegut - Chapter Ninteen (Cont.).mp312.38 MB
 192 Kurt Vonnegut - Chapter Ninteen (Cont.).mp312.38 MB
 210 Kurt Vonnegut - Chapter Twenty One.mp312.32 MB
 140 Kurt Vonnegut - Chapter Fourteen.mp310.61 MB
 152 Kurt Vonnegut - Chapter Fifteen (Cont.).mp310.26 MB
 030 Kurt Vonnegut - Chapter Three.mp310.18 MB
 040 Kurt Vonnegut - Chapter Four.mp310.02 MB
 120 Kurt Vonnegut - Chapter Twelve.mp39.79 MB
 010 Kurt Vonnegut - Chapter One.mp39.53 MB
 110 Kurt Vonnegut - Chapter Eleven.mp38.7 MB
 170 Kurt Vonnegut - Chapter Seventeen.mp38.21 MB
 231 Kurt Vonnegut - Chapter Twenty Three (Cont.).mp38 MB
 100 Kurt Vonnegut - Chapter Ten.mp37.99 MB
 080 Kurt Vonnegut - Chapter Eight.mp37.86 MB
 000 Kurt Vonnegut - Preface.mp37.28 MB
 220 Kurt Vonnegut - Chpater Twenty Two.mp37.05 MB
 041 Kurt Vonnegut - Chapter Four (Cont.).mp36.96 MB
 130 Kurt Vonnegut - Chapter Thirteen.mp36.89 MB
 050 Kurt Vonnegut - Chapter Five.mp36.6 MB
 260 Kurt Vonnegut - Chapter Twenty Six.mp36.6 MB
 160 Kurt Vonnegut - Chapter Sixteen.mp34.77 MB
 060 Kurt Vonnegut - Chapter Six.mp34.34 MB

Description

Breakfast of Champions or Goodbye Blue Monday By KUrt Vonnegut (Read By Stanley Tucci)

Copyright 1973 | Audiobook Copyright 2004 | Genre Sci-Fi | Publisher Harper Audio | Unabridged | Number of MP3s: 33 | Total Duration: 5:26:08 | MP3 CBR 128 kbit/s 44100 Hz Mono



Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

"We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane." So reads the tombstone of downtrodden writer Kilgore Trout, but we have no doubt

who's really talking: his alter ego Kurt Vonnegut. Health versus sickness, humanity versus inhumanity--both sets of ideas bounce through this challenging

and funny book. As with the rest of Vonnegut's pure fantasy, it lacks the shimmering, fact-fueled rage that illuminates Slaughterhouse-Five.

At the same time, that makes this book perhaps more enjoyable to read.-



Breakfast of Champions is a slippery, lucid, bleakly humorous jaunt through (sick? inhumane?) America circa 1973, with Vonnegut acting as

our Virgil-like companion. The book follows its main character, auto-dealing solid-citizen Dwayne Hoover, down into madness, a condition brought

on by the work of the aforementioned Kilgore Trout. As Dwayne cracks, then crumbles, Breakfast of Champions coolly shows the effects his dementia

has on the web of characters surrounding him. It's not much of a plot, but it's enough for Vonnegut to air unique opinions on America, sex,

war, love, and all of his other pet topics--you know, the only ones that really count. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.



From AudioFile

This novel was Vonnegut's 50th birthday present to himself. He seems to have wanted to purge himself of his usual literary preoccupations

so as to renew his imagination for his mature years. So he pursues his fictional alter ego, the sour old sci-fi writer Kilgore Trout, and frees

him from his creator, that is, himself. He does this at a small town arts festival after one of Trout's few readers shoots up the place.

These events are related as if to a young space alien who knows little of the human "machine," as the author calls us. Stanley Tucci delivers

a superbly sly interpretation of this fare. He affects a laid-back, melancholy style, using his excellent timing and spurts of mischief

to bring home the sardonic humor and irony with which the book is larded. This approach goes a long way to mask some of the author's self-indulgence.

While a brief and somewhat fatuous interview with Vonnegut does little to enlighten the leader, the clever packaging reproduces some of the

illustrations from the printed original, which contribute to the tone of a primer for nonhumans. Y.R. Winner of AUDIOFILE Earphones Award

© AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine



Review

"It's marvelous...he wheels out all the complaints about America and makes them seem fresh, funny, outrageous, hateful and lovable."

--The New York Times



"Vonnegut is George Orwell, Dr. Caligari and Flash Gordon compounded into one writer....A zany but moral mad scientist."

--Time



"Free-wheeling, wild and great....Uniquely Vonnegut."--Publishers Weekly--This text refers to the Paperback edition.



Book Description

Breakfast of Champions is vintage Vonnegut. One of his favorite characters, aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer

is taking his fiction as truth. The result is murderously funny satire as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution

in America and reminds us how to see the truth.



About the Author

Kurt Vonnegut is a master of contemporary American Literature. His black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America's

attention in The Siren's of Titan in 1959 and established him as 'a true artist' with Cat's Cradle in 1963. He is, as Graham Greene has declared, 'one of the best living American writers.'

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