Helpful Score: 5
Maybe I've been spoiled by Robbins' earlier works. It took a long while for me to get into this one. I had to come back to it several times. But Robbins is a master story weaver and by the end I loved it, like all the others.
Helpful Score: 4
Not one of my favorite Robbins' books, but still full of his trademark imagery. Just be forewarned that the narrator has an obsession with his adolescent step-sister -- I had a little trouble with that myself.
Second tier Tom Robbins
I love Tom Robbins! This is not one of his best books but it was a good read. It kept my interest.
Robbins is the finest stylist working today, as this madcap tale aptly demonstrates.
I didn't enjoy this as much as earlier Robbins, but if you like his wild and wacky yarns, you'll enjoy it.
Tom Robbins is a briliant and humorous storyteller, and this book doesn't disappoint.
my first-ever tom robbins book -- what a fantastic ride! i ripped through it breathlessly, marvelling at his effortless wit.
I liked this book immensely. It is a little different than most of the other Tom Robbins' books I have read, whose formats all seem to follow a similar guideline. There is even a character in this book that is seen again in Villa Incognito!
Overall, I really loved this book. It wasn't as "easy" to blow through as his others, even though I would read it every night for hours.
Overall, I really loved this book. It wasn't as "easy" to blow through as his others, even though I would read it every night for hours.
It was a very funny and interesting book
Kirsten O'Quinn (koquinn) -
I loved this book. It was completely outside of my normal reading choice, but I liked it so much that I requested a couple of his other books.
This is not something to be read over a weekend. Take some time to read it and digest it and enjoy the crazy humor that Robbins interjects.
This is not something to be read over a weekend. Take some time to read it and digest it and enjoy the crazy humor that Robbins interjects.
