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    <body><![CDATA[Good Lord.  I can't reread or review this objectively.  Never mind the precision with which he captures and presents his characters in Revenge of the Lawn, or the well-imagined always open or maybe never closed library of unpublished work in The Abortion or just the absorbing slowness of So the Wind...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9845046">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Yeah. Your analysis makes a lot more sense than mine... perhaps that's why the story came in third for me, it's metaphors went over my head. Maybe when I reclaim it I'll read through it again keeping that in mind.<br/><br/>Stephanie<br/><br/><br/>Subject: RE: american dust<br/><br/><br/>well...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81284205">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this at a bus depot in Albuquerque New Mexico during the middle of the night. The guy sitting next to me just did a year hard time and all he had was hygiene products so I gave him some money for cigarettes and a hamburger. He asked me if I liked snakes and gave me a gnostic ring. Traveling w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44526376">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<strong>The Abortion</strong>: Three stars for this one.  It's not a &quot;wow, you gotta read this!&quot; book, but I'm glad I read it.  It made me think a lot.  It starts out as a story about a weird library for books that have never been published.  The library never closes, so the librarian guy who works there c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26728739">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[ BRAUTIGANIANA <br/><br/>I had read the other novel and the masterful collection of short stories (ROTL) in this Brautigan 3 book edition, but had never read the last (and his last), So The Wind Won't Blow It All Away... <br/><br/>Brautigan's star had set by that point and the novel was not well...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10986933">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[One volume containing three great works from Brautigan, including my personal favorite, 'Revenge of the Lawn'.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Richard Brautigan. I only wish he had written more books.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Changed the way I read and write. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[All three of these books are fantastic. In fact, they may be three of his best. Revenge of the Lawn is short stories, many very short, only a few paragraphs: Check out &quot;Homage to the San Francisco YMCA&quot; about a man who replaces all the plumbing in his home with poetry and the hilarious and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9710789">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[title story of Revenge of the Lawn is fantastic and filled with the kind of true tales of justice any kid can spot - so the wind wont blow it  all away is the most poignant book of loss i've read. my voice catches on his prose when i read it aloud (actually a lot of brautigan does that to me)]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Love this book. Are you a poet?<br/>Think poetry is dull and fluffy?<br/>This book is written for the 20th-21st cynic who is only a cynic because modern society pushed practically everybody that way but really has a heart with romance, idealism and clever thoughts.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Read Brautigan a long time ago, and was reminded of him while reading Kurt Vonnegut...Re-reading now, leaves me scratching my head. I did like The Abortion, seeing as I work in a library...]]></body>
    
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