Judging by the reviews, it looks like I'm the odd one out here. "So the Wind Won't Blow it All Away" just didn't do it for me. I found it hard to connect emotionally with everything Brautigan was rambling about, and maybe it was the rambling, Beat Generation-esque writing that put me off. Hard to say.

What I can say is that everything I found fun and delightful about [b:The Abortion|160588|The Abortion|Richard Brautigan|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1547292359l/160588._SX50_.jpg|691235] was absent here. The writing is similarly quirky, but it just doesn't serve the story as well.

This book is said to have foreshadowed Brautigan's suicide, and I suppose after the event one could believe that as Brautigan here is spouting forth about buying a gun instead of a hamburger and all that, but I wouldn't have guessed that the author was "in trouble" had I read this when it was released. Maybe in trouble of continuing to write in a fashion that was far out of style, but not like mortally so.

Disappointment and regret seem to be the two themes that crop up here most often, so it's somewhat apt that I now look back on reading this with something like disappointment and regret also.