by Richard Brautigan
I went up to Portland for the weekend to see my friend Trout Fishing in America get married. Portland is a great town and my friend is a great guy. Unfortunately I got the stomach flu or food poisoning or something and so I missed out on all but 45 minutes of his wedding, and on seeing old friends a...
Though I do believe this book was extremely important in its time I am not convinced it is any longer. I did enjoy rereading it as it brought back old and pleasant memories of a time first-called The Generation of Love. Richard Brautigan, after years of writing poetry and learning how to write a goo...
Brautigan's surreal writing style took some time for me to get used to and appreciate. After consulting some critical writing on 'Trout Fishing', however, it was a lot easier to deal with the abstract prose and I think I was able to grasp - partly, at least - the dark undercurrent of the book.
A bit difficult for me to get into. It needed a bit of time to get used to the writing and structure. Very interesting bits in it, though I think I lack the historical and sociological background of the America it talks about. If you like Beat Generation writing, this surely is worth checking out. B...
Loved the sense of humor and absurdity in this collection of shorts that connect. If there'd been just a bit more joining, I think this could have told a more coherent story, but I realize that wasn't really the point of the book. Some of the passages are laugh-out-loud funny.
Don't let the title fool you, this is one of the greatest works in history."The same thing once happened to me. I remembermistaking an old woman for a trout stream in Vermont,and I had to beg her pardon."Excuse me, " I said. "I thought you were a trout stream. ""I'm not, " she said." -R.B.
My third (or possibly my first) of the three Brautigan "novels" I've read. Can't remember a damn thing about it, just an overall sense of weirdness with something good hiding beneath the surface. Imagine that with the right lure and enough patience, a reader could hook some pretty cool fish lurkin...
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