Breakfast of Champions vs Dragonball (Doragon bo-ru): Which Should You Read?

Cover of Breakfast of Champions Breakfast of Champions Kurt Vonnegut · 1973 ★★★★☆ 4.1 322 pages · ≈ 5 h 58 m · Moderate

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…

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Cover of Dragonball (Doragon bo-ru) Dragonball (Doragon bo-ru) 鳥山 明 [Akira Toriyama] · 1984 ★★★★☆ 4.0 215 pages · ≈ 3 h 59 m · Easy

Goku and Bulma have found five of the Dragon Balls, but they must find Kame-Sen'nin, the Turtle Hermit, and face the Emperor Pilaf, who wants the balls for himself, before they will have all seven.

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The verdict

How to choose

Scores by source

Breakfast of ChampionsDragonball (Doragon bo-ru)
Goodreads 4.1 (285692) —
Hardcover 3.9 (724) —
Apple Books 4.0 (391) —

Reception

Breakfast of ChampionsDragonball (Doragon bo-ru)
Ratings 285692 9
Editions 60 37
Film adaptations 1 —
Want to read 188040 —
Reading it now 6568 —
Written reviews 12506 —
Wikipedia attention 9158 —
Pages 322 215

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