Book Club of Champions

By Mike Levy

Guizhou University sits on the outskirts of Guiyang City, the sleepy capital of China's poorest province. Undergraduate tuition is the equivalent of $250 per term, books and housing included. A meal of pulled noodles, hot pot or sweet and sour pork runs about $1, while the soup-and-rice [RETURN TO ARTICLE]

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    “Breakfast of Champions”?? Sorry, it’s a low point for me.

    May I suggest “Player Piano” as a more important contribution from KV, though it doesn’t get much notice because, perhaps, it’s actually done in narrative form, like a story. Complete sentences and an actual attempt at at using setting and character (somewhat) to convey the dystopian message, fancy that! Unlike “B of C”, which comes across like random doodles, like he “phoned it in.”

    (spare yourself anguish, don’t watch the film “Breakfast of Champions”... A-list cast but awful film, you’ll feel stupider by the end, if you make it all the way through, which I couldn’t)

    “PP” is much more timely in today’s tech-o-mated, convenience-obsessed world, even if it was written half a century ago.

    Where “Slaughterhouse Five” and “Cat’s Cradle” are whimsical, “Player Piano” is thought-provoking in a much more serious vein.

    Philippines Posted by Kuya on Apr 13, 2008 at 10:11 PM
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