A midwestern car dealer becomes convinced that a pulp science-fiction writer's novel is addressed to him personally.
Books mentioned in Breakfast of Champions (6)
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare: “What else is sacred? Oh, Romeo and Juliet, for instance. And all music is.”
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens: “They would ask such impudent questions as, “Whuffo I want to read no Tale of Two Cities? Whuffo?””
Ivanhoe by Walter Scott: “Patty Keene flunked English during the semester when she had to read and appreciate Ivanhoe, which was about men in iron suits and the women who loved them.”
The Good Earth by Pearl S Buck: “And she was put in a remedial reading class, where they made her read The Good Earth, which was about Chinamen.”
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll: “Dwayne did to Trout what the Duchess did to Alice in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.”
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám by Omar Khayyám: “Here was the poem: The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it. (quoted from memory by Dwayne, untitled in text; identified as FitzGerald's Rubaiyat quatrain LI)”
Books that mention Breakfast of Champions (1)
Among Others by Jo Walton: ““Cat’s Cradle?” “Breakfast of Champions, Welcome to the Monkey House.””