Tom Robbins

He should write articles instead of stringing his brilliant rants with withered plots drenched in predictable sex. IMO. Also, 'Invalids' was a who-o-o-ole lotta withered plot!

 

i tried reading villa incognito...but i just couldnt get into it.
i expected to though, because ive heard such great things about him.

 

i've only read skinny legs and all so far

 

Ooooh...I love Tom Robbins!! I think Another Roadside Attraction and Skinny Legs are my favourites right now. Whenever I'm feeling really down and disconnected, reading his books make everything seem magic again!!

I love the abstract writing and the poetry. People say he's hard to read but I don't think so. You just have to read him a different way. Let him take you on a ride. Like reading "Beautiful Losers" by Leonard Cohen.

 

Don't let that discourage you. I am a huge fan, and even I thought the beginning of that one was a bit tedious.

Try Still Life, or Jitterbug Perfume. I'm rather fond of Fierce Invalids, too.

 

Tom Robbins is an ingenius writer with such a creative style of writing I've never seen before. The best one I've read so far is 'Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates', our character switters in condemned to a wheel chair most of the time, who falls inlove with a nun, and fights the Roman Catholic church, and everything else under the sun. I just finished reading "Only Cowgirl's get the Blues", our main character sissy hankshaw travels by hitchiking and ends up at a ranch full of cowgirls and not cows, but goats. Anyone here heard of him?

 

I'm currently reading Still Life With Woodpecker by him. And I named my cat Bonanza Jellybean after Even Cowgirls Get the Blues. I love him.

 

Sing if you're glad to be gay

 

Tom Robbins is a favorite of mine as well. I currently have Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas on my night stand.

 

Shut UP! As if your cat is Bonanza Jellybean... MY cat is named Bonanza Jellybean! lol.

 

Robbins is definetly one of my favorite writers. Turn around Norman has to be one of the best characters ever invented. Still Life with Woodpecker!!! Jitterbug Perfume!!!

 

Oh, I was just trying to make my brain remember for sure if he wrote Jitterbug Perfume! I read that a very long time ago and I loved it. It's the kind of thing I could certainly read again.


I enjoyed Still Life With Woodpecker. I don't think I finished Even Cowgirls Get the Blues. It just didn't grab me.

 

Sure, I've heard of Tom Robbins....even met him once....at a book signing. Does that count? Anyway, I'm surprised that no one has mentioned "Another Roadside Attraction". I think it's his first, and having read all of his books, it's the one I read again the most. Turn-Around Norman is a great character (what do you do on Wednesdays?), but, for my reading money, Plucky Purcell is my favorite








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I've almost finished my first Tom Robbins book--Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas. I love the eccentric style he uses. Are all of his books in the second person?

 

I've read all the tom Robbins books and that makes me sad.