I just forwarded my home page to my first friend (Suzie Poppins) and we were surprised to discover we are both Brautigan fans. We were thinking about starting a Tribe called "Still in Watermelon Sugar" and then I searched just for the heck of it to see if there was already a group. Good thing!
As I was saying to Suzie, I was introduced to Brautigan's work around 1989; I associate him with reading "In Watermelon Sugar" in a Millbrae, California pancake house. My favorite books are "The Hawkline Monster", "The Abortion" and "Dreaming of Babylon".
I wonder how many libraries have been created along the lines of the one in "The Abortion"?
Has anyone read his daughter's book?
Nice meeting you,
Don
As I was saying to Suzie, I was introduced to Brautigan's work around 1989; I associate him with reading "In Watermelon Sugar" in a Millbrae, California pancake house. My favorite books are "The Hawkline Monster", "The Abortion" and "Dreaming of Babylon".
I wonder how many libraries have been created along the lines of the one in "The Abortion"?
Has anyone read his daughter's book?
Nice meeting you,
Don
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Re: Great group!
Mon, January 19, 2004 - 12:22 PMI love this place.! I'm going live in here.!
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Re: Great group!
Sat, February 7, 2004 - 10:27 PMi tried reading it and got sad, real sad. RB could write but he was fucked as a human, ddamn near cried.Deep scars and a penchant for shotguns.Watermellon Suguar still grabs my balls ans shakes them thru. I first read RB in 1969 and read all the early stuff right away. I met Michael Mc Clure wandering in Oakland and knew of Jack Spicer thru reading Snyder. I go back a long time with these guys and they still make sense. Good luck with your reading and may God bless
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M.R. Merris
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Mon, February 23, 2004 - 2:10 PMi read her book, and i loved it. i usually dont like books about authors, they tear apart the intentions behind the book, or destroy the feelings in them, or just plain make you not like the authors, but iante brautigan's book just made everything ive gotten from those books seem like exactly what i was supposed to get, and affirmed the feelings i always got about him from his writing. it was tragic, and it did make me feel like crying when you read about him becoming institutionalized during the depression for throwing a rock through a police station window so he could get arrested and eat, but instead getting shock treatment . . . but at the same time, how nice to know that he had an attic room in a barn that was painted the color of a robin's egg . . . the book is well worth reading, and i doubt it will destroy any illusions you keep about him.
