Book · recommended on 1 episode
Breakfast of Champions
Kurt Vonnegut ISBN 0440131480
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Kurt Vonnegut ISBN 0440131480
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This book by Kurt Vonnegut came up once on Tim Ferriss in the episodes we index. That mention was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: Tim Ferriss. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
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 satire as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth.From the Trade Paperback edition.
“Kurt Vonnegut, one of my favorite writers, hilarious cat, Breakfast of Champions, etc. People can pick up any of his books.”— Tim Ferriss
The guest here is Tim McGraw: Country music superstar with over 106 million records sold worldwide, plus an acting career including 1883 and Land Man; husband of Faith Hill and father of three daughters. Tim McGraw tells Tim Ferriss how songs, surgeries, sobriety, and the father he barely knew shaped a 35-year career.
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