Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Min e Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar Author: Richard Brautigan | Language: English | ISBN:
B003WMAAL2 | Format: PDF
Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Min e Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar Description
An omnibus edition of three counterculture classics by Richard Brautigan that embody the spirit of the 1960s
Trout Fishing in America is by turns a hilarious, playful, and melancholy novel that wanders from San Francisco through America's rural waterways; In Watermelon Sugar expresses the mood of a new generation, revealing death as a place where people travel the length of their dreams, rejecting violence and hate; and The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster is a collection of nearly 100 poems, first published in 1968.
- File Size: 503 KB
- Print Length: 400 pages
- Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (March 1, 1989)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B003WMAAL2
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Not Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #131,508 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
I was thrilled to see that "American Humorist" Richard Brautigan had gone digital. THE PILL VERSUS... was my first introduction to the author's work. When I read his novels, I already knew of him as a poet. A genius with words. Brautigan creates textures and evokes emotions and he does it as economically as Count Basie played the piano. No wasted notes, no wasted words. I'm happy to have it on my Kindle and will always cherish my old, tattered copy.
I guess I should not have been surprised to see the 1 and 2 star reviews, as I am sure Brautigan is not everyone's cup of tea. It's impossible to respond to the criticism of reviewers like "John" who writes:
Everyone who likes this book praises it with as much ambiguity as the text itself. The reviews all say "Mind blowing," "real," "provocative," "revolutionary," and "Satirical." When asked to elaborate on why the text is all these things, no other relevant aphorisms are given.
No relevant aphorisms? How about this: "An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog."
(Friedrich Von Schlegel)
The "problem" is that you either get the poetry in his prose, or you don't. John actually searched these reviews and the internet looking for the answer as to why we appreciate this man's talent...
His advice: If you want to read literature that makes fun of the well known absurdity of the modern (postmodern) world then you will be better off reading Vonnegut.
I love Vonnegut. Brautigan was not Vonnegut. The only thing they had in common was a profound sense of humor that permeated their best work. Whether he was writing TROUT FISHING or SOMBRERO FALLOUT, he approached each word as a poet.
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