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The Hawkline Monster

A Gothic Western

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The Hawkline Monster

By: Richard Brautigan
Narrated by: Johnathan McClain
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The time is 1902. The setting, eastern Oregon. Magic Child, a 15-year-old Native American girl, wanders into the wrong whorehouse looking for the right men. She finds Cameron and Greer, two gunmen taking a timeout from the game after an aborted job in Hawaii. Their violent past doesn't concern Magic Child. She wants them to kill a monster for her, one she says lives in the ice caves under the basement of Miss Hawkline's yellow house, and one she says has killed before.

But the more she tells them about the monster, the more her story unravels, until it isn't clear if the monster is even real, or if anything else is.

Richard Brautigan's classic surrealist novel has inspired for decades with its wild, witty, and bizarre encounters with western-themed psychedelia.

©2016 Richard Brautigan (P)2016 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Fiction Genre Fiction Westerns Witty

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A strange gothic, borderline cosmic horror, or a western. Quick, quirky, and very odd. I dug it a lot. Surreal and atmospheric.

So fun

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loved the narrator and characters. made me laugh n giggle. qhats the next book. kept me interested

lol I enjoyed

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this was one of the weirdest stories I've ever read, and trust me, I've read some crazy things. The only thing that I didn't appreciate about this book was the racial slurs and the casual racism.

what the hell did I just read

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They don’t make writers like this anymore. His writing is non- linear and his points of view are fascinating. I also love his economy with words. Also he grew up poor giving so many of his characters and subjects meaning and legitimacy. Narration is perfect. Don’t miss this one if you find yourself on the fence ( maybe covered in broken glass filled with broken dreams. )

The best surreal western

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Top shelf stuff from one of the more underrated authors of the 60s-70s. This book is a great place to start diving in to the brilliance of Brautigan.

Perfect Brautigan

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loved it the surreal landscape and strange characters check this out if you enjoy this writer

strange and surreal

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Somehow Brautigans books always find the perfect narrator for the feel and attitude for the book! I am so pleased and often chuckle out loud because of how perfectly the reader expresses Richard’s oh so quick and subtle humors. 10/10! :-)

Perfect Narration as always

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Heard about this book for a long time. Glad audible had a reading! I absolutely enjoyed it. It was hilarious and thrilling!

I loved it

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It was just weird enough, I think. I don't really want to leave a review, but it says I have to have 15 words.

The perfect amount of weird

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What a whacky surreal weird book! The whole thing reads like a crazy dream (male fantasy) or, more probably, a bad trip. I'm not sure if it is really bad or really brilliant. It just defies a coherent review. If you're curious, read it. If you are easily offended by crude language and sex scenes or if you are looking for a plot...don't.

A guy in our book club picked this. A couple of us women are threatening revenge by suggesting something like Little Women or Jane Eyre as a next read.

Johnathan McClain read it perfectly.

You will either love this or hate this

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