Breakfast of Champions vs Jason and Marceline: 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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1 film adaptation
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Cover of Jason and Marceline Jason and Marceline Jerry Spinelli · 1986 ★★★★☆ 3.8 228 pages · ≈ 4 h 13 m · Light

The further adventures of Jason Herkimer as he tries to cope with three important things in his life: his relationship with Marceline McAllister, his peer group, and his burgeoning sexuality.

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The verdict

How to choose

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Breakfast of ChampionsJason and Marceline
Goodreads 4.1 (285692) —
Hardcover 3.9 (724) 3.0 (1)
Apple Books 4.0 (391) —

Reception

Breakfast of ChampionsJason and Marceline
Ratings 285692 1
Editions 60 9
Film adaptations 1 1
Want to read 188040 —
Reading it now 6568 —
Written reviews 12506 —
Wikipedia attention 9158 100
Pages 322 228

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