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Novel Response #4 Breakfast of Champions By Kurt Vonnegut Vonnegut, Kurt. Breakfast of Champions. New York: Dell Publishing, 1973. pages-302. Summary- Well, to start it off, this is a great book that questions the way people are supposed to act, and what a reader’s elders have taught one about the way people should also think. As the book starts off, is says this, “This is a tale of a meeting of two lonesome, skinny fairly old white men on a planet which was dying fast.” These characters are Kilgore Trout and Dwayne Hoover. Kilgore Trout was a science fiction novelist that was a nobody to put in easy to understand terms. Dwayne Hoover is a Pontiac dealer, right on the verge of going insane. In this novel, it has flashbacks, and present situations that the characters are introduced to. This book kind of skips back and forth from character to character, telling what is going on. Not until the very end of the book do the characters meet, and does the book come to a gr