Breakfast of Champions vs Diary: Which Should You Read?
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
Diary
“Blessed be God, at the end of the last year I was in very good health, without any sense of my old pain, but upon taking of cold.”
Samuel Pepys (23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703) was an administrator of the navy of England and Member of Parliament. The detailed private diary that Pepys kept from 1660 until 1669 is one of the most important primary…
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- Diary is the quickest read — about 1 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; Diary stays the lighter read.
How to choose
Want a one-evening read?
Diary
≈ 1h vs 5h for Breakfast of Champions
New to the genre?
Breakfast of Champions
Moderate vs Challenging for Diary
In the mood for something dark?
Breakfast of Champions
a darker storyline than Diary
Want something lighter?
Diary
an easier tone than Breakfast of Champions
Scores by source
| Breakfast of Champions | Diary | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.1 (285692) | 4.2 (88) |
| Hardcover | 3.9 (724) | 3.7 (3) |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (391) | 4.5 (7) |
Reception
| Breakfast of Champions | Diary | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 285692 | 88 |
| Editions | 60 | 166 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 188040 | 110 |
| Reading it now | 6568 | 32 |
| Written reviews | 12506 | 15 |
| Wikipedia attention | 9158 | 6351 |
| Pages | 322 | 16 |