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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 12, 1974)
Richard Brautigan, author of Trout Fishing in America,, has come ud with another winner The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western. Just as the tormer was not really about trout fishing, The Hawkline Monster Is not really a western. And it is Li tLs uut ... X t 1 k H Mrfa it 2 St & 3. 11 MHfl guys 3.00 gris 2.00 f flffi 'f:.'fli J( i 1 Pr. 1' v 1 tK"f ... t .i fI . wlj 1' !Sf rt- j 1 . .A , 1- I f v. if) fyi v5 -r w i. lit Mill .i v .mi ;ttr LATE show K 1D I. CO 'p JANE FONDA y DONALD SUTHERLAND V Off'"'! . V V f.re than a mevic: A.n cxpldsiv (:nema concert! r"" r i y y Ubiiu I H n Li L.J Ly 6 i ?nence! I X I 1 comes up with a winner f'! V Nv 'i ; Dark Side 01 Th Moon 3 3 now through tues 'p ..it' v ii i i .u.v w.w -1 C .0 7 30-9:30 r-- 14 & o 1 ti"atk r,-pl"",ir.r "k MhY!.rlUI UUuo. Get your steaming polish sausage sandwiches, s aeiicious cniCKen saiaa sandwiches, and scrumptous Sar-B-Uue Beef sandwiches at Henry's. The sandwiches are served with piping hot baked beans and a beverage ; ail f or M.". m -r ,n tint it to ct a nnnn book and deserves to be read. The action takes place in the summer of 1902 in the "Dead Hills" of eastern Oregon. The twin Hawkline , sisters, who live in a huge house, 'isolated. in desolate surroundings, are having'problams with a monster they think lives in the ice caves beneath their house. These same ice caves make the house considerably colder than its environment in the middle of summer, snow is piled up around the house and the sisters keep warm only by using tons ."of coal in their three f ireplaces, . The monster in the ice caves was accidentally created by the sisters' father, who was engaged in a series of experiments intended to solve "the ultimate problem facing mankind"-in the, basement laboratory,: just above the ice caves. Things got out of hand and the resulting monster apparently lured the old man into the caves and did him in. This troubles the sisters. They are even more disturbed by ,fthe ' .possibility that'-, the , M6ntdfVi.mi$fit escape i rohV the' ice' fcaesVianavget i'lito the'-lidusd. So' they hire two professional killers to get rid of this thing that is making a bit of a nuisance of itself. The two gunmen are ready to kill the creature, but the sisters' 7 ft. 2 in. 300 lb. butler suddenly dies mysteriously. Before they bury him, the four rush off to make iove, just one of the many strange things they do during the course of the novel. They finally decide the butler must be buried, but when they return to his body, they find he has shrunk until he is only 31 inches. They are more than slightly relieved, because now they can bury him in a suitcase, instead of having to build a huge coffin for him. Unfortunately, after he is buried, the dwarfed butler returns to his normal size and awakens, not altogether happy at discovering he is buried in a suitcase. But this is digression. It is enough to say that the monster, through some wily tricks by the two gunmen, is finally destroyed in a scene that is reminiscent of the final, pyromaniacal sequences from acient Frankenstein movies. That's the story. But the reader's enjoyment will not be spoiled by the plot revelations here. One expects, when he reads a book of this sort, that the monster will be defeated, and in the end, justice will prevail. The joy of this book is not only in the plot it is in the numerous detours and incidents that occur on tha road to the tale's completion. But don't overlook the meaning the book-can tiav& ftir the thinking reader; On first reading; " there is a tendency to accept the story for what it appears to be another crazy Brautiaan tale. But there has never been a Braitgan work that has not meant something and The Hawkline Monster is no exception. There are too many oppositions (sexdeath, heatcold, light dark, etc.) to consider. And there's the ending do the characters live happily ever after? f ... Read this book once, and enjoy it. Then read It again, and i hink ahntit it SSSSSSSSSX!SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS5?3 ffioDWD-CIP! The Nebraska Union is forming a Monday night bowling league. . STARTING: at 8:30 p.m. COST: $1.75 for three sanctioned games. SIGN UP: at the Games Desk, Nebraska Union. first come, first serve AjSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS ssssssssssss i akelhesandwiches-out-orstayr'" And be prepared for Fast, Fast, Fast, Fast service at Henry's, next to Nebraska Bookstore 1 1 23 'R'. (tiring your folks on game day. y Mi " Nebraska 'rOwft A'StiroSoaet r Mrs; 'Pa't SHvd&r WHt'dryt-ua --m .' 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