On Tuesday, October 16, 2012 8:58:58 PM UTC-4, Bryan wrote:

> Don't waste your money on *An Unfortunate Woman*. It just isn't a
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> good book. Perhaps Brautigan was so disappointed in it, that it
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> tipped him over the edge. It is the only one of his books that is
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> crappy.

Well, the library had it so I'll give it a go... His daughter's memoir is interesting... I just read that he had set timers on his lights, etc in his house before he died... She wonders if he had planned to go on a trip, and something else set him off so he never went on the trip. Who knows? He'd apparently been on the precipice for many years. She says when she was 8 he told her, but that he pulled himself together for a few years.

The Crowley book sounds interesting. Library has a couple copies.