I never took an American lit class in college, so I am still attempting to fill the holes with some of the seminal authors that I missed, Kurt Vonnegut being one. I read Slaughterhouse Five years ago and mostly what I remember is it being weird- which prepared me for Breakfast of Champions. The novel follows two main characters, Dwayne Hoover, a successful car salesman in Midland City, Ohio, and Kilgore Trout, a fictional author that shows up in several Vonnegut novels. Hoover is inching […]
I want to love Vonnegut but its just not hitting for me
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut