Breakfast of Champions vs Survivor: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Authorship, 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
Survivor
“And so here is my confession.”
Tender Branson, the last surviving member of the Creedish death cult, has commandeered a Boeing 747, emptied of passengers, in order to tell his story to the plane’s black box before it crashes. Brought up by the…
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- Breakfast of Champions has the widest readership — 285692 ratings behind its score.
- Breakfast of Champions runs the darker storyline; Survivor stays the lighter read.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Breakfast of Champions | Survivor | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.1 (285692) | — |
| Hardcover | 3.9 (724) | 3.5 (2) |
| Google Books | — | 4.0 (67) |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (391) | 4.0 (5) |
Reception
| Breakfast of Champions | Survivor | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 285692 | 67 |
| Editions | 60 | 16 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 188040 | — |
| Reading it now | 6568 | — |
| Written reviews | 12506 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | 9158 | 2616 |
| Pages | 322 | 289 |