Just finished reading "Breakfast of Champions" again [View all]

[Atman]

I haven't read it since I was a kid, and had forgotten much of it...like mainly, how little things have changed since Vonnegut wrote it. All of political and environmental issues are not only still there, they've gotten worse. What struck me most, though, was the racial discussion. The final couple of chapters, where Vonnegut hits the issue of race, would be unpublishable today. In fact, I fear I can't even talk openly about it here on DU for the likelihood that my post would be hidden.

Yet the liner notes list review after review citing BOC as one of the best books ever written.

America truly had gone mad, and Kilgore Trout saw it coming years ago.