I recently finished Cat’s Cradle (second Vonnegut book after Breakfast of Champions) and I found it quite bad. All the characters were one dimensional cardboard cutouts Vonnegut uses to expound his views in a condescending and arrogant manner. This book just beats shallow nihilism over the reader’s head the entire time while ignorantly bashing on those with different views. Honestly, I’m shocked that this book is acclaimed. Its ideas and writing make it seem like it was written by an edgy high school student.
Breakfast Of Champions is not a good one to start with. I maintain that that book was Vonnegut seeing how far he could shove a book up its own ass, now meta and pretentious he could make it, and still have people fawn over it.