Breakfast of Champions vs Exquisite Corpse: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Fiction
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
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Exquisite Corpse
To serial slayer Andrew Compton, murder is an art, the most intimate art. After feigning his own death to escape from prison, Compton makes his way to the United States with the sole ambition of bringing his "art" to…
The verdict
- Readers rate Breakfast of Champions highest: Breakfast of Champions 4.1 · Exquisite Corpse 3.8.
- Breakfast of Champions has the widest readership — 285692 ratings behind its score.
- Exquisite Corpse runs the darker storyline; Breakfast of Champions stays the lighter read.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Breakfast of Champions | Exquisite Corpse | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.1 (285692) | 3.8 (28287) |
| Hardcover | 3.9 (724) | 3.4 (77) |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (391) | 4.0 (168) |
Reception
| Breakfast of Champions | Exquisite Corpse | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 285692 | 28287 |
| Editions | 60 | 11 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 188040 | 71871 |
| Reading it now | 6568 | 1961 |
| Written reviews | 12506 | 4553 |
| Wikipedia attention | 9158 | 4835 |
| Pages | 322 | 244 |