The characters interact in an offbeat manner, their conversations are seemingly simple and often repetitive. ‘Just before I arrived at iDEATH, it changed. It is the reader’s way in a way to make the book their own and make of it what they will. The imaginative space is the books most creative asset. It’s as much about what isn’t said as what is. This book manages to be both vivid, and completely untethered in place. Richard Brautigan, described as the last of the beats, has created an experiment of transcendentalism through which we explore people, connection, spirituality, self-sustainability, corruption and reflections of our own society. This book is a representation of the author’s own counterculture ideologies. In iDEATH, things are made from watermelon sugar, the sun shines a different colour every day and rivers can be half an inch wide. IDEATH is a place, a town, a feeling, and as far as can be told, an entire world completely adrift of the universe as we know it. The story is told by a nameless narrator, a gentle character whose contemplative nature and poetic disposition are the eyes with which we see the world of iDEATH. One that will materialise at random, dredged from the depths of conscious, and is impossible to shake. The feeling that remains long after the book is placed back on the shelf is like waking from an absurd dream.
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