Kurt Vonnegut reads Breakfast of Champions | 92Y Readings 

its so adorable listening to him snicker at what hes written.

Vonnegut spoke more truth than anyone. It is painful to hear the truth sometimes.

This is wildly different from the published book version. Instead of being from the perspective of an author with godlike power over his creations, it's in first-person, from the view of one of his most damaged ones.

This is such a wonderful remembrance for me, having been a guy of those times and an avid fan of Vonnegut. Very touching that he addresses so many points in this short excerpt that are so very relevant today, July 25, 2021.

This is in my top 5...Kurt was definitely a light of inspiration. Thanks for the classic.

Brilliant. Life affirming. Thanks.

It was excellent to hear this, thank you! An alternate version, i couldn't have imagined better!

That was amazing. Thank you so much for posting that. That just made my life.

This book, given to me when I was 17, changed my perspective of life, I became an existinlalist without realizing. I was taught horrific lies about God and Christianity, Hell and Hevean by the Fundamentalist Latter-day Saints, Short Creek, Utah, USA, after my brother and I were orpnded, 11, 9 years old, respectively, by our broken machine parents, vintage 1960, in our beautiful home in LA, which was no more. Living unloved and frightened, in the beautiful desert of Southern Utah.. My brother and I were turned to Pillars of Salt. He died an alcoholism at 41, as did both of my parents. The Creator patches me up and sends me back, every time I am broken. Vonnegot told me the truth about God.

This makes me want to become a writer.

This is so different from the published version!

Thank you Mr. Vonnegut......

Thank you for uploading this.

What a treat

Now I remember how I felt the first time I read Mr. Vonnegut. How his full thoughts did not let me stop reading and wanting to feel the next slippery step of his slick science fiction.

Thanks for 26 minutes of genius

Well, I can´t thank you enough for uploading that pearl. The internet isn´t that bad after all.

This is really good.

Wow, I haven’t read this since 1978, still incredible, I will always adore 🥰 him. He is one of my favorite writers. Sounded like a light lunch in the Garden of Eden, such a great line! Only robots could eat Draino….my dad was a Journeyman Linotyper, he paid me $10 an hour for spell checking several books, when I was a teenager, which was incredible money in the 70’s.

I remember loving this book when I read it in the early 80s before technology and mobile phones took over, it's a bit like someone from another planet describing what it's like on planet earth but but with a great sense of humour 👍 one of my favourite books back then . 😊

When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of cheese

perfection

Hi me 5 years from now

There was an old man who lived near you. He saw so many fools he did not know what to do. He gave them some stories without any BS. Then whipped them all soundly and put them to rest.

This was the first book by Vonnegut i read

15:45 "I tell you what I hope most for this new planet of mine: that nobody, knowing what Drano is, will ever eat Drano." Amen.

Great you be you

"I figured out how to keep humanity from hurling itself off the cliff. To start, we're all going to post our favorite Rant(s) on 11-11 at 11:11. ~ xoxo Hahn Furst” #FLICKiT #HappyBirthdayKurt #HappyBirthdayFyodor #HappyBirthdayLeo

Thanks son don Juan Diego 🤩

Someone should transcribe this. Someone other than me, that is.

May 4, 1970? Kent State Shootings.

What accent does he have? Boston Brahmin? Midwestern? Californian? Etc.

I'm just annoyed by the people in the audience laughing all the time

This is better than the final book he published