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    <body><![CDATA[I can't believe I forgot how dazzling this book is. <em>In Watermelon Sugar</em> is 138 pages long — many of which are half pages at best — and yet manages to whip up a stunning, strange, surreal (I hate that word normally, but for <em>serious</em>), incredible little world, full of sad, strange characters and sh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/320998">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is hands down my favorite book of all time.  I wish I could give it more stars than five.  It's written by a beat poet but sometimes feels more like Science Fiction crossed with stream of consciousness.   <br/>The first line of the book &quot;In Watermelon Sugar, the deeds were done and done a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/449573">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was absolutely besotted with this book and now I can't remember why, but I carried it around with me in high school and just thumbed through it and soaked it up. I suppose it was everything I wanted, but couldn't have - freedom on all levels for a small-town girl stuck in a small school full of sm...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11237505">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A short book with short chapters and is therefore perfect for the crapper.  But the story isn't shitty at all.  Being my first Braughtigan read, i expect fun things ahead.  <br/><br/>The book depicts what turn out to be a very crutial few days in the zany hamlet of iDEATH. The inhabitants that liv...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8782178">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is like no other that I have ever read. It is a totally fanciful novel, set in a place made from watermelon sugar with thousands of rivers, some a couple inches wide, all with graves and statues in them. The place has a history of Tigers eating the inhabitants and several ate the main char...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5265100">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The 4-star rating is a compromise between different readings at different times of my life.  Once I even loved this book, a sort of hippie fairytale, in which unpleasant possessiveness and alcohol abuse (bad) poison pleasant promiscuity and marijuana use (good).  This was my favorite part:<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20527398">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have read this book many times, starting from when I was a kid. It enchanted me as a kid for it has themes that I could grasp: your parents leaving you and being scared, talking tigers, best friends and lost friends, mountains of junk and mysterious places to explore, not to mention the fascinatio...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/864396">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the book that made me realize that Brautigan was a sham writer. I had my suspicions after reading <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=Revenge of the Lawn" title="Revenge of the Lawn">Revenge of the Lawn</a> and <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=Trout Fishing in America" title="Trout Fishing in America">Trout Fishing in America</a>, but this one put him forever in my private slush pile. I don't understand the reputation that has been handed him and I don't think he deserves ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8142652">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[یک ساعت یا بیشتر پیش از طلوع خورشید از خواب بلند شدیم و صبحانه را پیش از موعد خوردیم . امروز وقتی خورشید در آستانه ی دنیایمان بالا بیاید , تاریکی       باز می ماند و صدایی ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22574872">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow!  There are so many ways that you could interpret this book.  My interpretation, which could be totally wrong and off base, is that the narrator sees life as kind of a hopeless bowl that we all get lost in.  A sort of melancholy mess with one certainty: Death.   We are all going to die that is c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80068975">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of Brautigan's rather slight efforts, a product of its times that would be unlikely to find a publisher today, or, indeed, tomorrow. It did just fine, though, in the middle 60s.<br/><br/>The narrator inhabits a place called watermelon sugar, where watermelon sugar is itself one of three ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80065223">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[تو قند هندوانه، اشکان در عین خوشحالی و شور و شعفی که از عشق اش به یه دختر اثیری داره، خودش رو با چاقو سلاخی می کنه، در قتد هندوانه، سید رضا وقتی از سر کار اش نزدیکای اتو...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76983426">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm sorry, but what? In Watermelon Sugar was a complete and utter waste of time and I question the people who find any value in it whatsoever. I like symbolism and ambiguity as much as the next person but if there was was any meaning to be found in this pretentious drivel, then it was lost on me.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49241707">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[one just gets the sense that the person who wrote it had to be someone really beautiful but a little naive or mad too, and then that someone got horribly lost along the way, and only got home after everyone else dear to him had died of old age, leaving him to die alone with the terrible heartach, so...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4322381">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is so pretty, it's in a world of its own, and that world is a magical one. It's the kind of book that requires little effort, it just carries it along with you, you become submersed in it. It's a book based on little things, not the big picture, where the people float around with no higher...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66768618">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As much as Brautigan repelled me in person, this book is a transcendent thing. It glows softly in my hands, the pages made from watermelon sugar. On the face of it, it's some hippie post-apocalyptic nonsensical rantage. But it is lyrical, and sweet, and good. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this so much, even though I didnt really get his writing.  There's beautiful imagery, at the very least.  It's a quick read, so I'd recommend it to anyone and would love to hear what anyone has to say about Brautigan's story. ]]></body>
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