

This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. It is said that Harry Styles’s song “Watermelon Sugar” was also inspired by this novel. There is quite a bit of hype surrounding this novel regardless it was written in 1968. He even narrates different female characters’ dialogues quite distinctly.

However, Bronson Pinchot has a great voice. I really do not like when the audiobook narrators do dialog narrations of the opposite genders in an awkward manner. The way the narrator reads the dialogs of female characters and males and even of tigers was super entertaining. There is nothing specific that readers may take away or learn from the novel. Everything in iDeath is made out of Watermelon Sugar: a sugar substance that has the ability to be molded into literally anything-watermelon seeds ink, watermelon-trout oil, watermelon window glasses, watermelon bridges, and even the sugar is made out of watermelon sugar. It was written in a genuine way, I had to drop the book and laugh for a good five minutes. When the protagonist was a kid, two tigers came up to his shack and ate his parents, and helped him with his arithmetic. Most of them were hunted to extinction as they were dangerous. There used to be tigers who could talk in the past. As for the animals in iDeath, there are trout in the rivers that are only inches wide.

The sun rises as a different color each day and everything is made out of Watermelon Sugar. The story happens in a dystopian timeline in a place called iDeath.

However, In Watermelon Sugar the writing was so fluid and authentic and the story was incredibly entertaining and pleasant. One other book I would categorize as this peculiar would be K-Ming Chang’s “Bestiary”. The imagery used by Brautigan was very peculiar and eccentric. I read In Watermelon Sugar during the month of July 2021, the month of Watermelons.
