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In Watermelon Sugar
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This is the book that made me realize that Brautigan was a sham writer. I had my suspicions after reading Revenge of the Lawn and Trout Fishing in America, 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 it for the folderal he manufactured. His poetry is all right, at least I remember The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster as not entirely without worth. Some of it makes me laugh at least. But his fiction is false, dead and dreary. I've never been so bored as when I was in In Watermelon Sugar and I can no longer pretend his work is important just because so many other people think it is.
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Oct 31, 2017 02:29PM
Such an atrocious book! I really do not understand why people like it. The writing is awful!
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It does kinda feel like a summary of things. Like maybe a bored, articulate child giving you a rundown of his day at a summer camp. But it's still pretty at points. I wouldn't call him a sham as yet because I've only read 2 of his stuff. But it was a bit dry. Sombrero was too. I didn't get the humour in both but oh well, it's alright.
I guess somethings can be so bad people like them for some reason, like the God awful Rocky Horror Picture Show.
