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    <body><![CDATA[A friend who knew I had only two of Brautigan's novels to read leant me this. The two novels were <em>Dreaming of Babylon</em> and <em>The Hawkline Monster</em>.<br/><br/>I began with <em>Dreaming of Babylon</em>. Needless to say I was looking forward to it and I'd love to say it didn't disappoint but it did. Had this been ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31799752">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was terrific. It is composed of three novels as the title above plainly states. I started reading the Hawkline Monster first because of the raving of a friend. I must say I was quite happy I did so. The tales was strange, supernatural and funny. It had all the hallmarks of a Brautigan nove...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58699280">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[No doubt about it, Brautigan is a light weight, fun read.  Just what I need during these &quot;heady&quot; times (not to be confused with the sort of 'headiness' in vogue during Brautigan's era).<br/><br/>The first novella, A Confederate General From Big Sur, was the first ever published by Brauti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48508176">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book, as you can probably see, is three books in one. So I will break them into three parts.<br/><br/>A CONFEDERATE GENERAL FROM BIG SUR was kind of a fun hippy ride into Brautigans imagination. It was like he just cared little how far out he went. Like his mind would say, &quot;What this sto...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57563638">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Really enjoyed this. I just found about who Richard Brautigan was a few weeks ago. Didn't know anything about him. However, when I cam across his name I made a point of thinking I need to read some of his works..<br/>So i went to the library and got this anthology of three of his novels. Apparently...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30310778">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The only one of these I've actually finished is the first one, A Confederate General in Big Sur. It is a fairly simple story that is narrated in first person. The narrator feels like it is Brautigan himself, and the story deals with him and his friend who is, you guessed it, a Confederate general wh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7797761">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just discovered this guy, a contemporary of Jack Kerauoc. Weird enough to keep you reading. Except a lot of imagination. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Three short novels.<br/><br/>California drifter Jesse tells about his friend Lee Melon, descended from a Confederate general and living in a sawed-off shack in Big Sur where the frogs drive him crazy at night.<br/><br/>Washed-up private eye C. Card wears mismatching socks and day-dreams about th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4590804">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Have not read Dreaming of Babylon, yet.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[just fantastic]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What can I say, Richard Brautigan is a genius.  The Hawkline Monster is by far my favorite one of his books.  The ridiculousness of the plot and mysterious chemicals gets me every time.  As for the other books, I've read them but the library copy of Dreaming of Babylon was missing 2 pages.  I still ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3076513">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;The world needs dreamers&quot;...A friend of mine just borrowed &amp; returned this book to me. It contains my all-time favorite Richard Brautigan story and one of my favorite novels of all time, &quot;Dreaming of Babylon.&quot; It is the story an inept, daydreaming detective who thinks the best t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1948149">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Now fully obsessed with this man. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not as great as Trout Fishing in America, but A Confederate General in Big Sur is Brautigan's first novel. The message is a but more raw and his characters are slightly more heavy handed, but all the trappings of art and beauty shine through. The ending of this story is the stuff that makes quantum ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23759388">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Thu Apr 17 05:45:02 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Get this book if you like words and goofiness that goes melancholy.  Get this book if you like drifters and odd characters and stories on a couple of levels.  Richard Brautigan makes writing look simple without ever giving up on the power of words to say something new, no matter how much b.s. has al...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20363470">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is special in my heart. the love of my life read this book to me page by page every night before bed. it was the first full book he read me, and I will never forget it. It is a wonderfully whimsical read. and the characters are full of life.<br/>I love this book for so many reasons]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read Brautigan in the early 70s.  I'm sure he's one reason I was so attracted to California, and why I moved here and lived in SF before moving to SoCal. Now I don't know what I'd think or feel about his books, but I loved them then, his whole sensibility and sense of playfulness.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A friend lent me this book and asked me to return it when I was done.  Then he moved out of town.  Since I enjoyed the book so much (though I hardly remember it eight years later) I became a bad book borrower.  It still sits on my book shelf, waiting to be read again. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think Dreaming of Babylon is probably the weakest of the three novels in this omnibus, but it's still a decent read and it only takes one star away from what would otherwise be a five star rating.<br/><br/>I'm definitely continuing with Brautigan. The guy's a nut.]]></body>
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