A review by lee_foust
The Hawkline Monster by Richard Brautigan

3.0

Although entertaining and quirky, this self-described "Gothic western," based mostly around a Frankenstein-type plot, doesn't really add anything very new or original to either genre, nor does it shake the foundations of occidental thought or literary tradition. Mostly, today, it makes for an interesting window into that late '60s/early '70s world of female, sexual, and urban liberation. Yeah, it's more of a hippie novel than either a western or a Gothic. Fun and imaginative, but much less emotional and profound than the more autobiographical novels of Brautigan that I've read and admire much more than this one.

Also it sound very much like a Kurt Vonnegut novel--kindred spirits or was there some influence in one direction or the other? I dunno.