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| Original Title: | The Tokyo-Montana Express |
| ISBN: | 2267002892 (ISBN13: 9782267002898) |
| Edition Language: | French |
Richard Brautigan
Ebook | Pages: 302 pages Rating: 3.98 | 1092 Users | 64 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Tokyo-Montana Express |
| Author | : | Richard Brautigan |
| Book Format | : | Ebook |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 302 pages |
| Published | : | 1981 by Christian Bourgois (first published 1980) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Short Stories. Poetry. Cultural. Japan. Literature |
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What is the best way to get from America to Japan? Board The Tokyo-Montana Express and then you will find out.Although I enjoyed all Richard Brautigan’s books that I've read, this fantastic trip seems to be my favourite.
A train is travelling from Cairo to Alexandria. It is a blue sky, white cloud day in Egypt. I am watching the train on television here in California, a long way from the Middle East.
Why do Egyptian clouds catch my attention as I look at the train? These are the first clouds I remember seeing in weeks or maybe months. I just haven’t been paying attention. When did I stop?
The train is carrying the President of the United States Jimmy Carter and the President of Egypt Anwar Sadat. They are trying to find peace between Egypt and Israel. It’s somewhere out there in the desert. While they are doing this, I am watching clouds and trying to figure out what they mean to my life.
We all have our roles in history.
Mine is clouds.
Everyone should find one’s place in the sun and play one’s own unique role in history.
The smallest snowstorm on record took place an hour ago in my back yard. It was approximately two flakes. I waited for more to fall, but that was it. The entire storm was just two flakes.
So it is with our lives – we have grandiose expectations, we dream of grandeur, we wait for a grand cloudburst of fame but all ends up just in the two wee teardrops of rain.
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Ratings: 3.98 From 1092 Users | 64 ReviewsPiece Appertaining To Books The Tokyo-Montana Express
A few poignant and/or amusing quips and scenes in the book, but nothing near the level of "Trout Fishing in America". Recommendation: Read "Trout Fishing".Once upon a time I used to dish out many a five-star review, all too generously.Now, come to think of it, I give many four-star ratings, the occasional three-star rating, almost never a one- or two-star rating (because usually I have given up on the book by then anyway) an occasionally, when I discover that rare diamond in the rough, a five-star rating.Well here I have found one. Being a fan of Richard Brautigan's writing might make me slightly biased but this is the last prose work of his I've
I think this might be the most hilarious of Brautigan's books, not that it's all fun and games, but when it's funny, you bust a gut.
i loved this but i also have a lot of really complicated Brautigan feelings right now
well, that's it, i've read all his books now. shit.
a bit disjointed...more so than his other books, but still beautiful and funny.
This is one of my favorite books of all time! To understand the book, imagine that you are riding on a train and each piece of writing is a station stop on the route. I love it because it has no narrative but there is a theme that gets gleened from the book at the end. Maybe that theme is just Brautigan's idiosyncratic life view, or maybe it's a broader commentary on the 60's and 70's. He has a way of musing about the small things in life, making a hugely significant event about a small gesture.
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