Richard Brautigan (1935–1984)

This book was a delight, quick and completely bizarre, I truly never once gained my footing when reading this book. A brief passage from early on in the story may illustrate what kind of incongruous, off beat, and often hilarious tone this novel has:

“The voyage from San Francisco to Hawaii had been the most terrifying experience Greer and Cameron had ever gone through, even more terrible than the time they shot a deputy sheriff in Idaho ten times and he wouldn’t die and Greer finally had to say to the deputy sheriff, “Please die because we don’t want to shoot you again.” And the deputy sheriff had said, “OK, I’ll die, but don’t shoot me again.”
“We won’t shoot you again,” Cameron had said.
“OK, I’m dead,” and he was.


Certainly may not be everyone’s taste or humor, but I would definitely recommend giving it a try if you manage to come across it. It entertained me thorough in the few hours it took to complete.



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