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Summary: No superlative...
Review: ...can be great enough to quantify this lovely book. If you are familiar with Richard Brautigan and you haven't read "Willard...", it's a spiritual kin to "In Watermelon Sugar". If you are unfamiliar with his writing, imagine a more poetic, hippier Vonnegut. Remember the first time you read "Breakfast of Champions"? Remember how you laughed out loud at the saddest things you've ever imagined and cried at the most joyful? This book will do it to you all over again. I read this book for the first time when I was 12. I still feel 12 when I read it. What better endorsement is there than that?
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Summary: A strange little book. Definately Richard Brautigan.
Review: Richard Brautigan's "Willard and His Bowling Trophies" is an interesting book about some very strange people. I didn't think it was as good as a few of his other works, but I did feel that given the time period in Brautigan's life and the amount of fiction already written by him, this book was definately worthy of publication. Brautigan's talent for creating strange, yet realistic characters really stands out in this story, and the decriptions of his character's lives and troubles, creates a memorable novel. I don't think Brautigan ever lost his touch, no matter where his soul took him, and this book is a good example of his unique sence of irony
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Summary: Words cannot describe...
Review: The praise i have seen in the above reviews sum up my estimation of Willard and his Bowling Trophies. My signifcant others in my life have been required to read it and I spent 3 years looking for a first addition (before i knew about amazon).
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Summary: Brautigan's funniest
Review: There are some unfortunate souls who just don't find Brautigan the least bit funny, but for the rest of us, this book is a MUST READ.
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Summary: terminal tragedy
Review: thIS books[abominations] banckruptcy of ideas IN sham COMEDY, MAKE for AWFULL AWKWARDNESS,of lonliness within the bottle SPIRALdrown he wrote. the PSUEDO wierdo, there were three , just hurt me to read, HOW shallow,SHRILL and desperate,NO matter he rebounded eventually, goes to show what alcohol CAN DO to ONCE GOOD writer,
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Summary: terminal tragedy
Review: thIS books[abominations] banckruptcy of ideas IN sham COMEDY, MAKE for AWFULL AWKWARDNESS,of lonliness within the bottle SPIRALdrown he wrote. the PSUEDO wierdo, there were three , just hurt me to read, HOW shallow,SHRILL and desperate,NO matter he rebounded eventually, goes to show what alcohol CAN DO to ONCE GOOD writer,
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Summary: These things don't just happen.
Review: This is the saddest possible book that Richard Brautigan could write. The theme is like the existence of circumstance and coincidence in the movie "Magnolia." It would be difficult to maintain that this book has no theme. There is an appreciation of ancient Greek poetry which is unmatched in contemporary American fiction. This book might be considered unusual in ways that reality reflects only if it exists (and I think it does).
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