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3.51 AVERAGE
3.51 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
funny
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
lovely
Vreemde ervaring... maar wel een hele goede. Simpel verhaal met een complex decor en leest heel vlot (de meeste hoofdstukken zijn maar 1 pagina lang). Eentje om nog heel vaak opnieuw te lezen.
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
What was the plot?
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
hopeful
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
i never understood quite what was happening in this book, and yet it left me with a sense of sadness. the way the world was created in such simplicity and seemed so peaceful and calm, even when things started to go wrong. i like the idea of knowing exactly what you are supposed to do, having a good routine idk :)
although margaret was distanced from the rest of the community, her death was no less unfeeling - it brought the story to such a strange close, simultaneously satisfactory and unsatisfying.
i was lead to this book by harry (no surprise) and it was just strange - wonderfully strange.
i was lead to this book by harry (no surprise) and it was just strange - wonderfully strange.
"Açúcar de Melancia" é uma novela pós-apocalíptica que retrata a vida em euMORTE, uma comunidade em que muitas das coisas são constituídas de açúcar de melancia. O livro, publicado em 1968, é um símbolo da contracultura e traz muitas alegorias à vida nas comunidades hippies nos anos 60.
A história brinca com o realismo fantástico, ou seja, é muito louca. Porém, o livro nunca chega a ser chato ou difícil de ler, já que a escrita é minimalista, com períodos curtos e diretos. .
Não foi um livro que eu adorei mas ainda assim achei uma leitura válida para conhecer mais do autor, que inclusive é uma das influências de Murakami. Também, é interessante ver esse retrato das comunidades hippies. Admito que eu só quis ler o livro, porque achei que teria algo a ver com o último álbum do Harry Styles “Fine Line”. Bem, não tem nada a ver, só serviu de inspiração para a música “Watermelon Sugar” mesmo haha.
A história brinca com o realismo fantástico, ou seja, é muito louca. Porém, o livro nunca chega a ser chato ou difícil de ler, já que a escrita é minimalista, com períodos curtos e diretos. .
Não foi um livro que eu adorei mas ainda assim achei uma leitura válida para conhecer mais do autor, que inclusive é uma das influências de Murakami. Também, é interessante ver esse retrato das comunidades hippies. Admito que eu só quis ler o livro, porque achei que teria algo a ver com o último álbum do Harry Styles “Fine Line”. Bem, não tem nada a ver, só serviu de inspiração para a música “Watermelon Sugar” mesmo haha.
emotional
mysterious
reflective
relaxing
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
slow-paced
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“I'll tell you about it because I am here and you are distant.”
Hook, line, and sinker. Alright Brautigan, you've got me.
I struggling to articulate why I was so drawn to this story. Perhaps it was the economy with which he presented suggestions and subtle imagery of his dystopian world. Or maybe it was simply the complete and utter uniqueness of his bell-jar utopia in which everything is messily confined. My questions clearly exceed his answers. Shouldn't that frustrate me? Shouldn't that leave me resenting him for not giving me more?
How did the old world come to it's end and this new utopia of watermelon sugar and Forgotten things come to exist as he presents them? Why does nobody remember what that past looked like, despite their sentimentality over their own dead?
Why tigers? Why inBOIL's allegiance to them?
Why does the idealised convent of passive cultists take on as mundane of a name as "iDEATH"?
These are just a few of the dozens of questions I've mentally collected over the very brief plot. It's such an odd and seemingly inconsequential space he shepherded me through. Maybe it's just the sheer originality of his world-building that drew me in, and the minimalism with which he conjured it. His voice is starting to take on a Hemmingway or (to make a modern comparison) Saunders' style... but much less focussed and more satyrical.
As this "review" has shown, my thoughts are just as unclear as the foggy world he's constructed. But I was fascinated by the experience all the same.
85
“I'll tell you about it because I am here and you are distant.”
Hook, line, and sinker. Alright Brautigan, you've got me.
I struggling to articulate why I was so drawn to this story. Perhaps it was the economy with which he presented suggestions and subtle imagery of his dystopian world. Or maybe it was simply the complete and utter uniqueness of his bell-jar utopia in which everything is messily confined. My questions clearly exceed his answers. Shouldn't that frustrate me? Shouldn't that leave me resenting him for not giving me more?
How did the old world come to it's end and this new utopia of watermelon sugar and Forgotten things come to exist as he presents them? Why does nobody remember what that past looked like, despite their sentimentality over their own dead?
Why tigers? Why inBOIL's allegiance to them?
Why does the idealised convent of passive cultists take on as mundane of a name as "iDEATH"?
These are just a few of the dozens of questions I've mentally collected over the very brief plot. It's such an odd and seemingly inconsequential space he shepherded me through. Maybe it's just the sheer originality of his world-building that drew me in, and the minimalism with which he conjured it. His voice is starting to take on a Hemmingway or (to make a modern comparison) Saunders' style... but much less focussed and more satyrical.
As this "review" has shown, my thoughts are just as unclear as the foggy world he's constructed. But I was fascinated by the experience all the same.
85
dark
mysterious
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Added to my TBR for Harry Styles, and finally read this after Jack Edwards reviewed it.
This is the most bizarre thing I’ve ever read. The world is so intriguing, yet we don’t really see much of it. I mean — the sun shines a different colour everyday, which makes the watermelons grow in different colours, and they extract a sugar from it and use it to build everything, and also mix it with trout to make watermelontrout oil, a chef who only makes carrots, a place where all the forgotten things are dumped — you get it.
Not sure if I’m an idiot or if this is fake deep, but I didn’t understand heck. Confusing, yet strangely addicting. Maybe that’s what Harry was going for in his song?
The ending went from 0-100 pretty quickly, though. lmao
This is the most bizarre thing I’ve ever read. The world is so intriguing, yet we don’t really see much of it. I mean — the sun shines a different colour everyday, which makes the watermelons grow in different colours, and they extract a sugar from it and use it to build everything, and also mix it with trout to make watermelontrout oil, a chef who only makes carrots, a place where all the forgotten things are dumped — you get it.
Not sure if I’m an idiot or if this is fake deep, but I didn’t understand heck. Confusing, yet strangely addicting. Maybe that’s what Harry was going for in his song?
The ending went from 0-100 pretty quickly, though. lmao
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Suicide, Blood