Breakfast Of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut

All the Real Soldiers Are Dead

Advantages: Original, scathing and poignant
Disadvantages: Bleak

of Dresden, and you will begin to understand some of the confidence with which Vonnegut genre-mixes with such aplomb. The novel starts in the first person, with a Vonnegut claiming to be less than confident in his abilities to pen his "Dresden" novel. This really serves to draw the reader in and wonder how he is going to move from this rather lethargic, worried voice to that of a more conventional story-teller. The construction seems effortless, light and airy as a result, as the author seems to directly tell the tale he wants to tell in a conspiratorial tone for your ears only. One could almost imagine that he wrote the thing from start to finish, just as thoughts came into his mind - a very difficult thing to achieve indeed given the level of painstaking reworking that must have gone in to make is as tight as it really is. Where ...

Kirsty1 27.04.2005 · Read full review
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A LOAD OF DIDDLEY SQUAT!

Advantages: You might end up reading the book
Disadvantages: You might not end up reading the book

Oh dear?. ?Breakfast of Champions? by Kurt Vonnegut is a classic book, a symbol of American counterculture in the 70?s?maybe a little dated now but its insights, satire and surreal tone still manages to bring a smile to my face, when I periodically go back to it. Therefore it is very sad to see this awful misconceived adaptation and to reflect on the missed opportunity and wasted talent on view. THE STORY The film like the book deals with the slowly disintegrating life of Dwayne Hoover a successful small time car dealer in the fictitious small mid American city of Midland City. The very name conjures images of white conservative middle class, and middle income, Middle America. Neat streets, white picket fences in the suburbs and ordered lives. Dwayne is respected and trusted in the community. However things are never what they seem ...

Mauri 19.01.2005 · Read full review
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Kurt Angle A WWF Champion

Advantages: Great character and huge talent
Disadvantages: Being overused- when will the WWF get it right

Kurt Angle a true Olympic Hero, a Euro-continental champion but WWF champion, pah I don’t think so. At the Royal rumble this was shown with Angle’s match with HHH in my opinion. He is an amazing wrestler and good with his mic skills. But honestly, WWF champion I think not. His matches with Jericho, Hardcore Holly, Before the incident, and other IC contenders proved to me Angle would be big, but you don’t expect someone like Angle to do what he has done so quickly. Come on he wins the matches by DQ half the time or by cheating, I know that is all about what a heel should be but I think this shows to me what Angle is like. Angle should be IC material maybe fighting the Championship contenders on occasions but I don’t believe he should be WWF champion. His matches with Jericho were some of the best in ...

Latino_Heat 22.01.2001 · Read full review
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