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Three counterculture classics by Richard Brautigan, literary icon of the 1960s, together in a single volume, including the unforgettable Trout Fishing in America.

Trout Fishing in America is by turns a hilarious, playful, and melancholy novel that wanders from San Francisco through America's rural waterways.

In Watermelon Sugar expresses the mood of a new generation, revealing death as a place where people travel the length of their dreams, rejecting violence and hate.

The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster is a collection of nearly one hundred poems, first published in 1968.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Mariner Books (March 1, 1989)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 400 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0395500761
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0395500767
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 1.02 x 8.25 inches
Reviewer: Bobby
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Classic
Review: Trout Fishing in America is a hilarious and quirky book. A true original. No one writes bitter-sweet hilarity like Richard Brautigan.

Reviewer: X
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great
Review: Good intro to fishing

Reviewer: sushibabe
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great author
Review: Bought this as a gift and was excited about three great books in one.

Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Review
Review: I read a decent bit of magical realism, and all of this carries those elements - I wasn't surprised to learn Haruki Murakami lists him as an inspiration.The books are definitely products of their time, but that's always going to be the case with fiction, and between reading and not reading this I'd recommend you read it.Trout Fishing in America is effectively a series of vignettes linked by a common theme (three guesses as to what it is - although sometimes there's no actual trout in the story). The Pill vs the Springhill Mine Disaster is a poetry collection. And then In Watermelon Sugar is the closest thing to a traditional novel here, the chapters are still very short and it's absolutely surreal, but there is an overarching plot and side plots/characters and everything.Overall I found the prose crisp and evocative, and I've already mentioned the magical realism in the imagery.

Reviewer: Angie
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great book
Review: Bought it as a present

Reviewer: Erik J. Jacobson
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Difficult to Say Anything
Review: Simply one of the best books ever written. It's difficult to say anything meaningful about this book that hasn't already been said. Instead, I'll just insert this poem I wrote while reading it:Response of Trout Fishing in America I am reading a book called Trout Fishing in America, and it is the most delicate book in the world. The pages are very yellowbrown, and they feel like they will crumble like stale piecrust if I turn them. The cover has corners missing; its rib it stitched with duct tape, but it does not adhere to the book inside. It’s a newspaper hat in a convertible on the highway. I think that maybe I shouldn’t read this book, that I should put it away like some Egyptian scarab. Maybe it is the Constitution, and I should not touch it with my indelicate fingers for fear that I rob later generations of its historic significance. I think: maybe I should buy another copy so that this one stays safe on the shelf and I can always look at it like a Japanese in the Louvre. But I can’t. I know this is what I must read. It has all the warmth and heart of my teenage years, college, drunken poetry, my sad loss of everything, my complacency, indifference, and middlepath numb. It is a stream flowing over me and a diamond shooting through me. These fragile, brittle pages, this dust barely congealed, beats in my hands and in my eyes like Braughtigan’s sadbeautiful soul.

Reviewer: Cthulhu
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Mixed Bag
Review: I really enjoyed In Watermelon Sugar, so I had to come back and finish the other two pieces eventually.Except, I kind of wish that I hadn't.Trout Fishing in America: Just utter nonsense and drivel. It can be funny at points but it's equally pretentious and boring. Couldn't bring myself to finish it even though it's only around 100 pages. 2/5Springheel Mine Disaster: This is the second collection of Brautigan's poetry that I've read, after Rommel Drives On Deep Into Egypt. This is a definite step up from that collection, but his poems are still very hit or miss. 3/5In Watermelon Sugar: A beautifully sad and magical book with some fantastic writing. Not a whole lot in the way of story, but it's more about the mood and the characters, similar to something like One Hundred Years of Solitude. 4-4.5/5.Overall not a strong collection, but In Watermelon Sugar is worth having. Though, in my opinion, you're not really missing anything if you buy the version of In Watermelon Sugar by itself.

Reviewer: Allison Dey
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Three of my favorite books of all time in one edition
Review: You either love Brautigan or are completely indifferent to him. If you love him and have lost your original copies, treat yourself.

Reviewer: F
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Good book, excellent edition

Reviewer: Tom Gray
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: The Pill versus the Springhill Mine DisasterI enjoyed reading this series of poems very much I have not read much poetry in the past. I spent a lifetime in engineering reading technical documents and non-fiction. However, in retirement, I have engaged on a project to read the literature which so many instructors tried to teach me in school. Brautigan was one of the authors taught to me in first year college. I suppose that the instructor saw Brautigan’s work as relevant to those of us who were young 40 and 50 years ago. I know I enjoyed the class. With my retirement project, I have found that there are many ways to write history than I had realized . Non-fiction is but one of them but there are many other ways to gain insight into human society and personal human psychology. Engineering is about creating things that are useful and that means having an understanding of human needs and wants. There are many ways to gain such an understanding. Poetry like this is one of those ways.The poem that most affected me in the collection was: “A Good-Talking Candle”—“I had a good-talking candle last night in my bedroom./ I was very tired but I wanted somebody to be with me, so I lit a candle/ and listened to its comfortable light until I was asleep.” There are a number of these very short poems in the collection. It is with these that, in my opinion, Brautigan is most effective. They are short one or two line lyrics or short stories. They do capture personal emotion. I found the longer poems to be uneven. Some like “All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace” are very effective. Others, however, have obscure and rather precious imageryIn Watermelon Sugar“In Watermelon Sugar” is a book that is written very simply. It is not a trivial book. It is quite a profound book. It is a book that was of its time. The time was of the 1960s and the 1970s. This was the era of Haight-Ashbury and Woodstock. It was the time when gentleness was the ideal. “In Watermelon Sugar” describes a community that is permeated by that gentleness. iDeath could be regarded as the ideal commune in which people spontaneously cooperate to the benefit of the whole. However, within it are attributes that belie its gentle nature. Just as within the 60s and 70s were the attributes of self-indulgence and irresponsibility that led to the end of the hippie experiment and the rise of the Me generation.The culture of iDeath lacks a true sense of community. There is no real caring for others just a sense of self and a community that cannot accept the otherne4ss of Margaret. The lack of community in iDeath bred the nihilism of InBoil. It also led to the social rejection and ostracism of Margaret. Margaret’s rejection led to her suicide which was, in turn, met with indifference. There is no sense of loss, regret or remorse in her death. There is no responsibility. There is only a sense of “Me”.---------------------------------------“Trout Fishing in America”;This for me is a book full of memories. In my retirement, I am following a project to revisit the books that people tried to use to teach me the world of literature. I didn’t understand then over 50 years ago, but I think that that that lifetime may have prepared me for what they were trying to teach.I remember “Trout Fishing in America” from the excerpts provided to us in that first year English literature course at Saint Lawrence in the fall term of 1970. It was only three years in publication then. It meant something to me then and it means something to me now. There is no anger in this book. There is no hate, no evil. It has aspects of “On the Road” as a beat exploration of America and in the late 60s as a rendition of the hippie ideal. There is truth in this book and that truth is something that seems to have been lost of the 50 years since its publication. I spent those 50 years studying and working in high tech. It was nice to read the books account of a pre-tech San Francisco and read about San Jose, Sunnyvale and the rest without the tech domination. Tech has brought some major social changes. Tech has enabled the individual and its social technology has enabled its opposite in factionalism and echo chambers. “Trout Fishing in America” seems to have come from a different time which had different ideals. It is just a book in which people meet each other without suspicion and envy.I remember this book. I enjoyed the excerpts in class but didn’t have the insight to accept the book for what it was when I tried to read it. I was looking for the big idea and missed it the first time I read it. Just be nice to each other.

Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Write your review here [Required]. Actually it ain't Trout Fishing, it's a three in one of Trout Fishing, another book about iDeath (tell that to Steve Jobs) and a poetry collection. All good.

Reviewer: Lotte-Lale
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: The book arrived promptly and in perfect condition. As I ordered it for a gift, I did not read it myself. Thank you.

Reviewer: DOUG BLACK
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: A great 1960's philosopher.