A Confederacy of Dunces vs Breakfast of Champions: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Fiction
A Confederacy of Dunces
“A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head.”
A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's hero is one Ignatius J. Reilly, "huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, a latter-day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French Quarter. His story…
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Breakfast of Champions
Breakfast Of Champions is vintage Vonnegut. One of his favorite characters, aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. The result is murderously funny…
1 film adaptation
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- A Confederacy of Dunces has the widest readership — 307339 ratings behind its score.
- Breakfast of Champions runs the darker storyline; A Confederacy of Dunces stays the lighter read.
How to choose
Scores by source
| A Confederacy of Dunces | Breakfast of Champions | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.9 (307339) | 4.1 (285692) |
| Hardcover | 3.9 (571) | 3.9 (724) |
| Google Books | 5.0 (1) | — |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (204) | 4.0 (391) |
Reception
| A Confederacy of Dunces | Breakfast of Champions | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 307339 | 285692 |
| Editions | 69 | 60 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 240657 | 188040 |
| Reading it now | — | 6568 |
| Written reviews | 22728 | 12506 |
| Wikipedia attention | 32116 | 9158 |
| Pages | 377 | 322 |