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Apt choice for my trout fishing trip next week

A very fast read. Not sold on “Trout Fishing in America” except for its rare use of interesting imagery, but the poetry collection and the postmodern apocalypse novella (“In Watermelon Sugar,” which may intrigue you if you liked Harpman’s “I Who Have Never Known Men”) were fun. Reading Beatniks often makes me feel like a raggedy, snobbish conservative, but Brautigan’s ideas have my respect.