Breakfast of Champions vs Cat's Cradle: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Satire, Classic Literature, Science Fiction, 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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Cat's Cradle
Cat's Cradle is Kurt Vonnegut's satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet's ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist, a complete, original theology created by a…
The verdict
- Readers rate Cat's Cradle highest: Cat's Cradle 4.4 · Breakfast of Champions 4.1.
- Breakfast of Champions has the widest readership — 285692 ratings behind its score.
- Breakfast of Champions runs the darker storyline; Cat's Cradle stays the lighter read.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Breakfast of Champions | Cat's Cradle | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.1 (285692) | — |
| Hardcover | 3.9 (724) | 4.4 (55) |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (391) | 4.5 (720) |
Reception
| Breakfast of Champions | Cat's Cradle | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 285692 | 720 |
| Editions | 60 | 87 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 188040 | — |
| Reading it now | 6568 | — |
| Written reviews | 12506 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | 9158 | 21856 |
| Pages | 322 | 215 |