this bitch won't leave my mind even though it's been 1,5 years since i read it... it's very special, the hippie-era surrealist prose-poetry... there's nothing quite like it.

Felt like a fever dream

Didn’t like it at all. It seemed like a very lousy take on surrealism. Neither does it provide a major takeaway nor is the writing in anyway above average. Extremely mediocre and mundane. Surrealist books are often, a way of expressing something major through other ways, this however does not give a message nor impacts your life or perspective in any way. Would not recommend.

If an acid trip was a book it would be this. Yes I say that having never been on acid. Whatever. In Watermelon Sugar is set in a post-apocalyptic utopia where the sun shines a different colour every day, and where everything is made of “watermelon sugar”.  It follows a nameless narrator as he runs through events which take place surrounding the commune he lives on - iDeath. This book is less about character development and more allegorical I’d say; as a reader you’re quite distant and alienated from the characters and the focus isn’t on development. In fact at times the characters motivations are so difficult to decipher that you wonder if it’s the books fault rather than your own. 
Brautigan’s writing style is strange at first but you get used to it. It’s very minimal - pretty much comprising entirely of simple and compound sentences. I loved the concept of this book- Brautigan wrote in the context of the counter cultural movements of the 1960s- about the limitations of idealism, which is something worth pondering even today. It’s also the name of a Harry Styles song.