Kurt Vonnegut reads Breakfast of Champions

Kurt Vonnegut reads Breakfast of Champions | 92Y Readings

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92Y.org/VPC | This excerpt is Kurt Vonnegut's very first public reading of the classic Breakfast of Champions, three years before it was published. Recorded May 4, 1970 at Unterberg Poetry Center of 92nd Street Y.
Watch and listen to more archival programming from Unterberg Poetry Center at the Virtual Poetry Center: 92Y.org/VPC

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@infinityLTFS 5 жыл бұрын

its so adorable listening to him snicker at what hes written.

2 жыл бұрын

This is such a wonderful remembrance for me, having been a guy of those times and an avid fan of Vonnegut. Very touching that he addresses so many points in this short excerpt that are so very relevant today, July 25, 2021.

@hermanzoon 10 жыл бұрын

Vonnegut spoke more truth than anyone. It is painful to hear the truth sometimes.

@trollero3 Жыл бұрын

But it is necessary. It is having bad luck not to suffer it at some point in life.

@WilsonsHat 3 жыл бұрын

This is wildly different from the published book version. Instead of being from the perspective of an author with godlike power over his creations, it's in first-person, from the view of one of his most damaged ones.

@PanamaSneakers 9 жыл бұрын

This is in my top 5...Kurt was definitely a light of inspiration. Thanks for the classic.

@oboBob-ub1so Жыл бұрын

Brilliant. Life affirming. Thanks.

@robinskifloor2840 Жыл бұрын

This book, given to me when I was 17, changed my perspective of life, I became an existinlalist without realizing. I was taught horrific lies about God and Christianity, Hell and Hevean by the Fundamentalist Latter-day Saints, Short Creek, Utah, USA, after my brother and I were orpnded, 11, 9 years old, respectively, by our broken machine parents, vintage 1960, in our beautiful home in LA, which was no more. Living unloved and frightened, in the beautiful desert of Southern Utah.. My brother and I were turned to Pillars of Salt. He died an alcoholism at 41, as did both of my parents. The Creator patches me up and sends me back, every time I am broken. Vonnegot told me the truth about God.

@VaiScion 10 жыл бұрын

That was amazing. Thank you so much for posting that. That just made my life.

@kieranm7469 8 жыл бұрын

It was excellent to hear this, thank you! An alternate version, i couldn't have imagined better!

@coolbreeze4069 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you Mr. Vonnegut......

@wizardmix 9 жыл бұрын

This makes me want to become a writer.

@red_ford23 7 жыл бұрын

He made it look easy too.

@DigitalZiggurat 6 жыл бұрын

Have you done it yet? How much more time do you think you have?

@HorribleHomeVideo 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you didn't write after all loser

@jiggersotoole7823 Жыл бұрын

how's it going?

@wizardmix Жыл бұрын

@@jiggersotoole7823 Writing is a skill I exercise more than any other skill I have and it's a constant joy for me. Thanks for the follow-up.

@makeitbetterx33 6 жыл бұрын

This is so different from the published version!

@andyuhe 3 жыл бұрын

I want to hear from looseleaf Harper!

@matthewwenman8692 10 жыл бұрын

Thank you for uploading this.

@laseryohanna 7 жыл бұрын

What a treat

@1BabyBull2 5 ай бұрын

Now I remember how I felt the first time I read Mr. Vonnegut. How his full thoughts did not let me stop reading and wanting to feel the next slippery step of his slick science fiction.

@MarcRodill 10 жыл бұрын

This is really good.

@jimrebr 2 жыл бұрын

Wow, I haven’t read this since 1978, still incredible, I will always adore 🥰 him. He is one of my favorite writers. Sounded like a light lunch in the Garden of Eden, such a great line! Only robots could eat Draino….my dad was a Journeyman Linotyper, he paid me $10 an hour for spell checking several books, when I was a teenager, which was incredible money in the 70’s.

@hughiedavies6069 Жыл бұрын

I remember loving this book when I read it in the early 80s before technology and mobile phones took over, it's a bit like someone from another planet describing what it's like on planet earth but but with a great sense of humour 👍 one of my favourite books back then . 😊

@simmieb8918 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for 26 minutes of genius

@kirchelive6252 Жыл бұрын

Well, I can´t thank you enough for uploading that pearl. The internet isn´t that bad after all.

@stan0matic 9 ай бұрын

perfection

@calyxiii7661 3 жыл бұрын

Hi me 5 years from now

@DSPHistoricalSociety Жыл бұрын

This was the first book by Vonnegut i read

@Bolt473 9 ай бұрын

When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of cheese

@tommartin2423 7 ай бұрын

True for all of us, save for the baby cheeses.

@Bolt473 2 ай бұрын

15:45 "I tell you what I hope most for this new planet of mine: that nobody, knowing what Drano is, will ever eat Drano." Amen.

@miguel-angelcervantes5021 Жыл бұрын

Great you be you

@ANobodiemyspace Жыл бұрын

There was an old man who lived near you. He saw so many fools he did not know what to do. He gave them some stories without any BS. Then whipped them all soundly and put them to rest.

@miguel-angelcervantes5021 Жыл бұрын

Thanks son don Juan Diego 🤩

@hahnfurst2195 2 жыл бұрын

"I figured out how to keep humanity from hurling itself off the cliff. To start, we're all going to post our favorite Rant(s) on 11-11 at 11:11. ~ xoxo Hahn Furst” #FLICKiT #HappyBirthdayKurt #HappyBirthdayFyodor #HappyBirthdayLeo

@deedonnerramone4757 2 жыл бұрын

May 4, 1970? Kent State Shootings.

@THOUSANDSofAPOLOGIES 8 жыл бұрын

Someone should transcribe this. Someone other than me, that is.

@willsuttie3683 8 жыл бұрын

It's a book. Why would you transcribe someone reading a book?

@THOUSANDSofAPOLOGIES 8 жыл бұрын

It's a very different version from the book. Did you listen to this?

@valsevker1087 7 жыл бұрын

This reading was deliberate..

@flannerymonaghan-morrs4740 6 жыл бұрын

What accent does he have? Boston Brahmin? Midwestern? Californian? Etc.

@majoryot 5 жыл бұрын

Kurt was from Indiana, so you're right on with Midwestern

@daviddawson1718 5 жыл бұрын

Terra haute, the same area as Larry Bird, Tom Morello, Adam Jones, and Kurt Sr.

@jimrebr 2 жыл бұрын

Midwestern, he was born in NYC, his parents were actors and spent much time traveling with shows, therefore, Kurt was raised in Germantown, by his Vonnegut relatives. He lived with his 1st cousin Walter’s family, both in Germantown & as a teenager he spent time on Guemas Island in the San Juan Islands of Washington state, where Walter’s family moved to, Kurt & Walt were born the same year, they looked so much alike.

@TheNotBees 9 ай бұрын

@@daviddawson1718 Indianapolis where his museum is

@salamalmahi541 8 жыл бұрын

This is better than the final book he published

@candyclaw706 7 жыл бұрын

Salam Almahi it's in the final book. you'd know if you had read it. You robot

@sianchetty1361 5 жыл бұрын

Candy, Salam was a robot who was built to post inane comments on youtube!

@hansolo6139 4 жыл бұрын

I'm just annoyed by the people in the audience laughing all the time

@gnuPirate 3 жыл бұрын

I'm not. They are enjoying it and they are engaged. It's a humorous work. I'm sure Kurt enjoyed their reactions.

@wallywam1 3 жыл бұрын

@@gnuPirate it’s humorous, but no need to guffaw at every single line.

@jessechristensen6338 2 жыл бұрын

@@gnuPirate Did he enjoy them because he thought they were machines laughing at what they were told to laugh at or because they really thought it was funny?