I love Breakfast of Champions as well. Really, I don't think I've disliked a Vonnegut book yet. I would like to read On the Road. I haven't read any Jack Kerouac, and he kinda keeps getting pushed down on my reading list I guess. It seems to me like people are often very polarized when discussing his writing. Many readers are fanatics, but a huge portion of readers are also disgusted by him. What's your take on this?
Gosh, it's been so long since I've read him that I can't really say. I can only say that the 18 year old version of me LOVED it. I felt challenged by it, like I was living some sedentary life and needed to be an adventurer. I was not going to college at the time, smoking tons of pot and had no direction. As much as it may sound odd, the book made me want an adventure and I chose college as that adventure. -I moved from Michigan to Montana and attended the university of montana. I think that book had a lot to do with it.