Breakfast of Champions vs Post Office: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Classic Literature, 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
vs
Post Office
Charles Bukowski’s classic roman à clef, Post Office, captures the despair, drudgery, and happy dissolution of his alter ego, Henry Chinaski, as he enters middle age.Post Office is an account of Bukowski alter-ego Henry…
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- Post Office is the quickest read — about 3 hours vs 5 for Breakfast of Champions.
- Breakfast of Champions has the widest readership — 285692 ratings behind its score.
- Breakfast of Champions runs the darker storyline; Post Office stays the lighter read.
How to choose
Want a one-evening read?
Post Office
≈ 3h vs 5h for Breakfast of Champions
New to the genre?
Breakfast of Champions
Moderate vs Challenging for Post Office
In the mood for something dark?
Breakfast of Champions
a darker storyline than Post Office
Want something lighter?
Post Office
an easier tone than Breakfast of Champions
Scores by source
| Breakfast of Champions | Post Office | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.1 (285692) | 3.9 (143456) |
| Hardcover | 3.9 (724) | 3.8 (307) |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (391) | 4.0 (399) |
Reception
| Breakfast of Champions | Post Office | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 285692 | 143456 |
| Editions | 60 | 16 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 188040 | — |
| Reading it now | 6568 | — |
| Written reviews | 12506 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | 9158 | 4071 |
| Pages | 322 | 195 |