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In Watermelon Sugar (Hardcover)

by Richard Brautigan (Author)
4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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3.0 out of 5 stars iDON'T, May 6 2004
This review is from: In Watermelon Sugar (Paperback)
To save all the guff of a musty synopsis I'm just going to get to the crux of my review and skip the foreshadowing. The defining moment of this book for me comes two-thirds of the way through the novella when the antagonist/deuteragonist inBOIL and his posse of Forgotten Works' drinking ne'er-do-wells display what iDEATH(A good place)is all about. He and his cronies have just showed iDEATH incarnate in a half-pantomime to the society at large and inBOIL says alas, "I am iDEATH." To which Pauline (She is my favorite. You'll see.) retorts, "You're an ass****." I laughed and thought that it almost seemed an autobiographical punctuation mark to what Brautigan thought of himself and his career. He was calling himself out. Bathos for his pathos. But that's just conjecture.

Regardless of Brautigan we have his works. It's brief and wispy enough to read without much deep contemplation, i.e., in the bathtub or while driving or at the beach baking your body into a cancerous mass. It's unique and intriguing enough that you won't get bored and will read it through. But the end result is questionable. For me it was like staring into the blank blue beyond. Nothing of significance happened from start point to completion or thereafter.

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5.0 out of 5 stars thank you mom, Nov 7 2003
By drew (Bellevue WA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: In Watermelon Sugar (Paperback)
In Watermelon Sugar is one of the best books I have ever read. I recommend it to all of my friends and have five copies to loan out. The story could happen anywhere, but it takes place in a weird commune (iDEATH) surrounded by millions of miles of "forgotten things." Life is simple for the most part and the people are nice, with a few exceptions (inBOIL and his gang). The main character is a writer and seems to have no name but still has great presence. He wanders from his shack to iDEATH daily; that is where he takes most of his meals. He is very friendly towards Pauline, who often cooks at iDEATH. He once had a thing for Margaret but now dreads the sound of that one board on the bridge that she cant seem to miss. It is a story that, in some way, all can relate to and four of my five copies are still floating around.
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5.0 out of 5 stars BRILLIANT, Jan 16 2004
By david (ALAMO USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: In Watermelon Sugar (Paperback)
Ideal as COMMUNE part snapshot into IDLY, IdEath soakes WITHOUT sweat, nor breath for in ITS very ideal OF lost liberty of any individuality lurks IN BOIL,in the shadows AKA [ the FORGOTEN WORKS,ALMOST A TWIN TO THE GENTLE bewildered EXcepter Offered up as specters,into the zoned pSydelic CADDIAK fringe, hinged [tinged] dunne in; un Done unhinged by their passativity, TRYIN TO HIDE DEFY FATE, in boils eXplode from within and DISRUPTS , PART suspense,GOTHIC GOOEY TRIP, GIVEN A BUMMERS RUSH its meserising INTENT GIVEN A LEASURE easy,BLEED .
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