Richard Brautigan’s Trout Fishing in America, The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar
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A Brautigan omnibus, reissued in paperback in celebration of its twentieth anniversary, this one-volume edition includes three contemporary classics that embody the spirit of the 1960s.
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I read him when he was first published and I just read him again.
I don’t reflect he’s any excellent. Especially, when he was first unrestricted, you have to keep in mind that at that time, if it didn’t make much sense if was permanently considered excellent. Not to say that that didn’t work some times. I just don’t feel that it worked here.
His writing, especially his poetry is so one dimentional that if there is any interest generated it doesn,t stay with you and soon you marvel why you ever liked it in the first place. Kind of like most “pop” rock. It’s catchy and you might like it for a few listens but then it’s time to find something with more guts.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
You know the ancient tale about an infinite number of monkey at an infinite number of typewriters would eventually produce every book in the English language? I am guessing they would end Brautigan’s ouevre first, since it is as close as I have ever seen to the random arresting of keys.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I didn’t really get this book, it still held my interest, don’t get me incorrect, but the book, for the most part, seems like random thoughs, included to take up space. I’ve heard the book is suppose to be some masterpieace of poetry, but this masterpieace I don’t see. Not to say that there are not any poetic passages in the book, there are lots, and they show you many themes into the book. A excellent example of a poetic passage is in the “my name” chapter, where the leader shows you that you don’t need a name to fit into society. But a excellent example of wasted space in the book is the multiple chapters that they speak of the bat under the plank press.
So if you like very abstract poetry, you should try this book, but if your not the type that can get poety, you should probly stear away from this book.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
Richard Brautigan’s Trout Fishing in America could have been a real classic for the ages. That is, it could have been a classic if it wasn’t about trout fishing and if it wasn’t written by Richard Brautigan. Brautigan seems directionless as usual here, leaping haphazardly from one place in time to another. Just when he comes up with an appealing line or word, he seems to forget about it and place you hanging while he goes off to some additional world. His writing is the equivalent of sitting in a chair under a tree drinking MD 20/20, suddenly falling onto your back, and then staring up at the leaves and wishing that it all meant something reasonably profound. And that is where the problem lies–Brautigan wants the grander themes and thoughts of the world to be expressed in his books, but he never does the legwork to get you there. You feel teased after reading his poems, like a girl who says she’d like to date you, then leaves you to go swimming at the YWCA, and you never hear from her again. Do you see where I’m going here? You can’t make lemonade out of a sourpuss. Brautigan never gave it his best shot, and sorry to say, he left the world lacking having said very much to it.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
I got through about 55 pages or so and could not force myself to go on. I liked the composition of the 60’s but the quasi-intellectual nonsense and philosophy that came out of that period is, in my opinion, a joke — not to be taken seriously. This work fits right in with the truckload of additional work from that period. The writer finished by blowing his head away with a 44-magnum which I would probably have to do myself if I wrote stuff like this for a living.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5