another roadside attraction

Yeah, I loved it too. Only read three of his so far. Love his style.

 

i havent read Villa or Even Cowboys get the Blues yet but i havent heard much good about Even Cowboys...

 

I liked even cowgirls get the blues and another roadside atrraction, although my opinion of his work has faded over the years, i used to love him, now i don't think he's amazing anymore, interesting, but kind of a novelty.

 

thats cause you are getting old gary....and you forgot what brilliance is its ok...soon you will be in a nursing home thinking Steel Magnolias is the best movie ever.

 

have you read any of the others?

 

HA, Steel Magnolias


I'ver read Skinny Legs and All as well but I don't remember much of it....tried starting Still Life with Woodpecker maybe 10 years ago and must have not liked it because I just stopped reading.


I'm not trying to rip on him, he's just no Hermann Hesse. I think he's good, just not one of the best.

 

If all you read is the best, you must not read much. I don't detect a snob attitude, do I?

I sometimes think that the joke was on us with a lot of Hesse's work though. Anyone who claims to understand or enjoy the Glass Bead Game usually bore the hell out of me. And the Prodigy was plain boring...

 

i've read all of his books....and i appreciate them all....


he's by far one of my favorite authors....

oh wait....i kind of said that already....

 

quote: If all you read is the best, you must not read much. I don't detect a snob attitude, do I?


Just because I say someone is good, but not one of the best I'm a snob?!
I said I liked some of his books, sorry if I don't worship him.

Actually, you are right, sorry for stating my opinion...I should just think exactly like everyone else so as not to appear arrogant.

 

well, I'm not looking to start a fight, but a do like to debate in my ham-fisted way.so here goes.
So Tom Robbins is not Herman Hesse. Those of us who have read him, those of us even who put him on our top five, would even agree. What I meant to say is it's redundant. So he's not one of those mid-blowing classic authors.
ok....so i've given it some thought and maybe i see your point. Tom Robbins is not of the caliber of HH. If you've never read him and you see people like me raving, you might imagine he is, so you want to know we aren't talking about some conciousnes-changing author. He's in amiddle ground, though. Makes steven king and john grisham look like shit, but is no shakespere...

 

quote: Makes steven king and john grisham look like shit,but is no shakespere...

Exactly

 

i am with you scarlett....he is absolutely one of my favs too...well actually he is my favourite.

 

bahahaha...i love you, you dork

 

Hey, what's with knocking Stephen King just because he's a best selling author? Most people that knock him probably haven't read him. Anyway, there shouldn't be any comparison to Robbins, King, or Hesse. They are all different in their own ways. Isn't that the beauty of reading a book? Actually Tom Robbins and Stephen King have been 2 of my favorite authors for a long time maybe because they both have a way of taking the weird and twisted and putting it in a great context. The only book I've read by Hesse was "Siddartha" which I loved! I find it very limiting to enjoy only one style of writing but I guess I'm like that with alot of things...I like to remain open.