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Breakfast of Champions: Audiobook

The Breakfast of Champions audiobook runs an estimated 8.8 hours (about 5.9 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

8.8est. listening hrs
3.9★67 ratings
Science Fictiongenre
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The instrumentWhen will you finish it?

Based on 8.8 hours of listening (estimated).

Days to finish Breakfast of Champions at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day18 days
1 hour / day9 days
2 hours / day5 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×6 days

What our data says

  • At 8.8 hours (estimated), it's shorter than 65% of the science fiction audiobooks we measured.
  • That's 16% shorter than the average science fiction audiobook (10.5 hrs across 820 titles in our dataset).

Computed from science fiction audiobooks in The Books Insider dataset (build ); listening time estimated from page count. Methodology.

Who is this for?

Best for science fiction listeners who want a comic streak: a solid week of commutes at 8.8 hours (estimated).

About the book

Audie Award Finalist, Best Male Narrator, 2016 Breakfast of Champions (1973) provides frantic, scattershot satire and a collage of Vonnegut's obsessions. His recurring cast of characters and American landscape was perhaps the most controversial of his canon; it was felt by many at the time to be a disappointing successor to Slaughterhouse-Five , which had made Vonnegut's literary reputation. The core of the novel is Kilgore Trout, a familiar character very deliberately modeled on the science fiction writer Theodore Sturgeon (1918-1985), a fact that Vonnegut conceded frequently in interviews and that was based upon his own occasional relationship with Sturgeon.

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Breakfast of Champions audiobook?

Breakfast of Champions runs about 8.8 hours, our estimate from its 296 pages at a typical narration pace. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.9 hours.

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When was Breakfast of Champions first published?

Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut was first published in 1973.