In Breakfast of Champions, the reader embarks with Kurt Vonnegut on a solipsistic journey that will change from hilarious to dark to heartbreaking to bland within a single page. The premise of the story is that a man, undergoing a psychotic breakdown reads a piece of science fiction that tells him he is the only being in the universe with free will and believes it is reality, prompting a destructive rampage in his small town. However, due to Vonnegut wanting to give all details and characters equal weight in the narrative, the vast majority of the novel is odd anecdotes, eclectic details like listing every character’s dimensions, and little sketches to accompany the text. Switching point of view and tense throughout the text, and eventually inserting himself as a simultaneous character and writer. The novel ends up as what seems to be a convoluted metaphor for Vonnegut’s midlife crisis. While the novel is quite distinct from his other works, it also has elements that are classically Vonnegut, such as its array of sarcastic social commentary and black satire. Also, he opts to liberally and irreverently use crass language and components to the story which prompts an occasional cringe. Unlike Vonnegut’s other novels like Slaughterhouse Five and Cat’s Cradle, Breakfast of Champions does not keep its reader glued to the pages with literary genius, however it is worth reading. It’s lighthearted, hilarious, and might even make you think a bit.