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    <body><![CDATA[I've a soft spot (on my brain, perhaps) for Richard, Abbie Hoffman, Saul Alinksy, <em>et al</em>. The crime attendant to this softcore alienation and escapist fixation would be the touchingly superstitious druuug rituals. Never quite sure what it is I'm feeling so sentimental about. Oh, it's not just the dru...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6953912">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[So then I read this after The Abortion and said to myself, &quot;Oh, I guess this guy is maybe kind of an ass? And why does he equate taking the Pill with a mining disaster? Oh well, time for cheerleading practice.&quot; The picture on the front still kills me, and for that, an extra star. Remember ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3091529">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Dear Trout Fishing in America,&quot;<br/><br/>The silliest thing I've read in awhile, Brautigan uses metaphors that don't really make any sense but feel so original you might tend to take them at face value.  Just 'cause it's easier to do so?  <br/><br/>&quot;...The other graveyard was for...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17003195">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had to lower my rating.  I had read this book several years ago, as a teenager in love with the idea of being a rebel and to me, Brautigan was.  So, perhaps when I rated it I added nostalgia: remembering the purple capret and insence burning while someone read to me, etc.  But it's hard to judge s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4139529">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read these books back in my hippie days and I fell in love with Brautigans prose.  It was beautiful, simplistic and minimalist.  He sketched pictures that had surprising detail in few words.<br/><br/>BUT...<br/><br/>I've matured.  These books will endure as classics in the minds of young liber...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3225152">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love, love love Richard Brautigan's poetry.<br/>One of my favorites:<br/><br/>Karma Repair Kit: Items 1-4<br/><br/>1. Get enough food to eat.<br/>     and eat it.<br/><br/>2. Find a place to sleep where it is quiet,<br/>     and sleep there.<br/><br/>3. Reduce intellectual and emotional...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/745406">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this one randomly at the library, and I opened it to a utopian poem about a forest with deer and animals who are coexisting peacefully with computers- &quot;watched over by machines of loving grace&quot;- and I had to read more.  The author is this crazy San Francisco hippie and Trout Fishin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49510514">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Brautigan's poems are sad and silly and beautiful. His voice is like that of precocious child. Always painfully honest, his work is charming, if not a little kooky.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am mad. Mad that I haven't read any Brautigan until this year. Now that I have this book along with the last he wrote (An Unfortunate Woman) under my reading 'belt' I feel a little happier. This edition, i believe, combines three separate Brautigan works each of which has their merits and their se...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55432846">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Q: If you were a Brautigan metaphor, which one would you be?<br/><br/>A: &quot;I wander around the house like a sewing machine that's just finished sewing a turd to a garbage can lid.&quot;]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Oct 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is three books in one.  My favorite is The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster, which is a collection of poetry.  The poetry is simple and sweet.<br/><br/>As for the other two books, Brautigan is extremely creative and has a very poetic yet simple way of writing.  Sometimes it is so...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32715237">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[تا زمان چاپ رمان &quot;صید قزل آلا در آمریکا&quot; که برایش شهرت جهانی به ارمغان آورد، در فقر و تنگدستی به سر میبرد. شعرهایش را در کنار خیابان به رهگذران می فروخت تا غذایی ب...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31587013">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Mar 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is too smart for me.  I'll reserve a real review until a re-read.<br/><br/><em>Trout Fishing in America</em>:<br/><br/>I &quot;dated&quot; this boy back home for exactly one week during my first winter break, and before I returned to New Orleans he gave me a collection of Dylan Thomas poems.  I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17328578">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Jul 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[[Note: this review is just for Trout Fishing in America; the volume I checked out included two additional works, The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster and In Watermelon Sugar, but those books aren't covered here.] The best aspect of Trout Fishing in America is the fact that it has a minor cha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24070362">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[چند قدم آن طرف تر از کلبه مستراحی بود و درش بی تعارف باز مانده بود .داخل مستراح مثل صورت آدم بود و انگار داشت میگفت:« آن پیرکی که که منو ساخته 9745 بار اینجا ریده و حالا من...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36621936">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Feb 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[since this volume contained 3 of brautigan's books, let me break down the starred review. the three stars was primarily for 'in watermelon sugar,' which was sad, bizarre and a little haunting. i'd give 1 pithy little star to 'trout fishing in america,' which felt incredibly dusty, dated and drug-add...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44046507">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Brautigan is truly brilliant. his simplistic style and attention to minute detail change the reader's perspective on everyday objects or ideas. his poetry in &quot;the pill versus&quot; never fails to make me happy and &quot;in watermelon sugar&quot; is a beautifully convoluted story that will confu...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My friend Sean gave me In Watermelon Sugar to read my sophomore year of high school. So far, it's probably the book I've read the most times in my life. Beautiful and mysterious and wholly engaging, Brautigan fulfilled the form when we wrote this.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In Watermelon Sugar has for years been and continues to be my favorite book in the history of my relationship with books; Richard Brautigan is, by really any metric, my favorite author.<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed trout fishing in america and the pill versus the springfield mine disaster, but for some reason in watermelon sugar just seemed annoying and gimmicky. Maybe I'd gotten sick of Brautigaun's schtick by then. Or maybe he'd gotten sick of it himself. ]]></body>
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