Breakfast of Champions vs Living with the Dead: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: 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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Living with the Dead
They're smart, sexy, and supernatural. They're the men and women of the Otherworld--a realm of witches, ghosts, and werewolves who live unseen among us. Only now a reckless killer has torn down the wall, trapping one…
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; Living with the Dead stays the lighter read.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Breakfast of Champions | Living with the Dead | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.1 (285692) | 4.0 (19487) |
| Hardcover | 3.9 (724) | 3.7 (39) |
| Google Books | — | 4.0 (1) |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (391) | 4.5 (49) |
Reception
| Breakfast of Champions | Living with the Dead | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 285692 | 19487 |
| Editions | 60 | 11 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 188040 | 10614 |
| Reading it now | 6568 | 203 |
| Written reviews | 12506 | 697 |
| Wikipedia attention | 9158 | 67 |
| Pages | 322 | 416 |