Trout Fishing in America

[Andeh]

by Brautigan.

Wow.

also reading Steve Martin's "Cruel Shoes" another short, unconventional and funny (brilliant?) collection o'stories in its own right.

[bohonato]

I love Richard Brautigan. If you have the time, you should check out The Abortion and The Revenge of the Lawn (if you haven't already). I have a friend who is really into him, and goes around to different libraries and steals first editions of his books. If you local library is lacking Brautigan, that might be what happened.

[stilltrucking]

I love Brautigan too.

I think The Abortion is my favorite novel.

This has nothing to do with Brautigan, the library books just tripped my memory.
http://www.gustavhasford.com/books.htm

Rest in peace dear Brautigan.

Rest in peace dear Gus.

[e_dog]

Trou' Fishin' 'n 'merica

is one groovy book, man.

yass, indeed

[Andeh]

Yes, I just got into Brautigan-I'll be sure to check out those other books (by him)

[stilltrucking]

I met Brautigan walking down lower Broadway in Fells Point back in Baltimore in 1974.
I was a mess, twisted bitter angry and full of self-pity. This was after my girl friend had an abortion because I fucked up and lost the condom cause I was so blissed out on acid. Maybe the ultimate orgasm but it was not worth the cost to her. I had put her into an impossible Sophie's choice.
Well anyway pardon me spilling my guts, I am just trying to tell you what Brautigan meant to me.

So there he was walking towards me and he smiled a beatific smile at me and I glared back at him in my pain. Like don't be smiling at me you son of bitch. Years later I heard about his suicide and I wonder if I had put another nail in his coffin that day.

Not long after that day in Fells point I read The Abortion and I loved it. It melted my heart. I mean I started to heal. Before I read the novel my guts would knot everytime I heard the word abortion and I would rant and rave. A long story that I have been trying to write for thirty years. Unfortunately I can't write.

My favorite part of the novel was that library he worked in. Where people submitted books they had wrote. * The little old lady with the book written in crayons was my favorite.

The Brautigan Library

http://www.jessamyn.com/journal/june00b.html

* I hate that sentence. Books they had written?
Sorry about my lack of skill as a writer.
I am thinking about trying crayons.