What does /lit/ think of Richard Brautigan? I read In Watermelon

>>9981458
I read one of his books its like a horror thing and it was mostly telling instead of showing. some of the worst writing I'd ever seen

>>9981466
it was The Hawkline Monster

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>>9981458
Trout FIshing in America rules

>>9981466
see pic

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>>9981458
i first read trout fishing in america during my postmodernist obsessed days when i was just starting to write seriously. at the time it didn't make much of an impression on me. when i (tried to) reread it a few weeks ago i realized the book is complete garbage.

brautigan is like a pretentious version of vonnegut. there's no soul to the writing. just deadpan humor and smug detachment. prose isn't even that good either.

>>9981578
>brautigan is like a pretentious version of vonnegut. there's no soul to the writing. just deadpan humor and smug detachment. prose isn't even that good either.
>being so middle class your soul can't understand the soul of anyone not raised in the suburbs
i guess try bradbury instead, kid. dandelion wine's probably as far as you go.

>>9981458
trout fishing is pretty close to in watermelon sugar in subject, but a looser style and more about 1960s hippies not future hippies.
a confederate general is a tighter style and less comfy (still comfy) but also based on a true story (can't remember what lee mellon's real name was, but they were close friends for decades)

>>9981466
>>9981470
>mostly telling instead of showing
did you not read the book or are you legit retarded?

>>9981578
>prose isn't even that good either.
That's a weird comment, are you sure you just don't like the prose style?
>pretentious ... no soul
This one's really weird. Usually he gets accused of being naive or maudlin. It is stranger for me again because I've read Sombrero Fallout and accusing him of being "just deadpan humor and smug detachment" after that would miss the central core of the book.

I don't know, dude, you seem to have a really weird set of objections to him. It's like criticizing GR for being "too linear" and "afraid of the human body".

>>9981458
why does he wear the hat?

would it be painful if someone took it off?

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>>9982063
I think it might be painful any way.

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>>9981458
Trout Fishing In America is genuinely one of the funniest books I've ever read.

I really like some of his poetry. Of course, it's a special kind of poetry, you have to appreciate subtlety to enjoy it, even more than with other kinds of poets. Often the appeal is exactly what he leaves out, or the slight gawkiness of the imagery that gives it the quaint appeal, like art naïf or fauvism paintings. In that way, Ivor Cutler is a similar writer.

“Finding is losing something else.
I think about, perhaps even mourn,
what I lost to find this”
(from Loading Mercury With a Pitchfork)

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>>9981458
dated babyboomer shit

>>9982391
>babyboomer
>brautigan
words really mean nothing to /pol/.