In Watermelon Sugar
iDEATH is a place where the sun shines a different colour every day and where people travel to the length of their dreams. Rejecting the violence and hate of the old gang at the Forgotten Works, they lead gentle lives in watermelon sugar. In this book, Richard Brautigan discovers and expresses...
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iDEATH is a place where the sun shines a different colour every day and where people travel to the length of their dreams. Rejecting the violence and hate of the old gang at the Forgotten Works, they lead gentle lives in watermelon sugar. In this book, Richard Brautigan discovers and expresses the mood of a new generation.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780099437598 (0099437597)
Pages no: 144
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Classics,
Novels,
Science Fiction,
Literature,
American,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
Contemporary,
Poetry,
Dystopia
I have lowered my previous ranking of four stars down to three. I did like it, but the book is much darker than I originally remembered it being and nothing I would want to ever return again to reading in my older age. Richard Brautigan was certainly a unique character and I am glad the Haight had h...
In the past few years when I hear US indie bands with male singers, it strikes me how boyish many of their voices are. I wonder if this is just an indie thing. Take Jeff Tweedy and Ben Folds - they often sound like teenage boys, whether dreamy teenage boys or angry ones. Since I haven't lived in Ame...
3.5 stars
1/2012 This one is a touchstone for me, and I'm not sure exactly why. Perhaps because it is so very gentle, so loving, so open. Ostensibly, it's a few days in a commune in some mythical world that used to have beautiful, man-eating, talking tigers. A world where everything is made from watermelon su...
I read this little tale in one sitting. It is unusual; I'm not sure what to make of it. A fantasy utopia, a reflection on gentleness. Would you get bored in a life with no violence at all? Is there such a thing as death without violence? Some of the people who live at iDEATH are a bit restless; but ...
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