In spite of all that, it’s a beautiful book, streamlined, fantastical, never boring. 20 years later, Brautigan was living again in Bolinas California where the novel was written and maybe inspired by, when he killed himself. The other thing that jumps out to a modern reader is the sexist, patriarchal ethos of the back to the land movement. Listening to it now, it seems to be about the dark side of close knit groups: how they single out individuals who threaten their harmony and destroy them how factional disputes end in violence which is perceived and remembered in distorted, mythological ways. I did find it odd that the name of the place was iDEATH. I loved this book when I found it on my parents bookshelf as a kid, partly for the sex, partly for the fantasy setting: a rural commune where the sun shines different colors on the different days of the week, people are buried in glass coffins at the bottom of rivers, and things are built from planks made out of watermelon sugar. If you're a sane person looking for a sane book meant for sane readers written by a sane author, I'd definitely recommend for you to pass on this one.
But not enough to waste an hour and half finding out. Am I curious what the Tigers and iDEATH are? Sure. True, I didn't make it even halfway through but I've got "the Hero of Ages" by Sanderson and about a million other books on my reading list and this book is firmly at the bottom. But I do hate a lot of modern literature where the only goal is to be different. Overall, I found nothing of substance in it, but don't worry because it's "literary." Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge fan of literature and find it a pleasure to work through a fat Dostoevsky novel. Also the writing style was simplistic yet grating.
There's basically no plot, nor much in the realm of character. I was extremely disappointed and only made it through the first 40 minutes. I was excited to start it since I've been trying to see how many books I can read this year, and as most of them have been monstrosities almost too thick to open like "Brothers K" and "It," I thought it would be good to pad my numbers a bit. If you're a sane person, this isn't for youįound this book in a list of classics under 200 pages, and when I saw it was free on audible, I decided to give it a try.
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