Good God, Vonnegut!

[ljmorris]

So I finished Breakfast of Champions a few days ago.  Yeah.  About that.  I do recommend it, with several qualifications.  It was certainly entertaining, amusing, and creative, in its own narcissistically absurd way.  If you demand a cohesive, tightly-plotted story with great character depth, that holds to its own self-contained universe and allows you to be sucked into it to experience it as full reality... look elsewhere.  To call this book meta-literary would be a grotesque understatement.  Yet it is a novel, and it does entertain, and even provokes a few thoughts about the nature of fiction and the ever-so-thin line between reality and imagination.  So in that, I imagine, Vonnegut accomplishes his aim.  By all means, enjoy.

Now I'm in the middle of Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury.  And I though Vonnegut and Kafka were disjointed.  Ha!