![]() ![]() ![]() Swiss Cheese head: " say a story that begins with a beet will end with the devil that is a risk we will have to take." Of the books I've read, Another Roadside Attraction stands out for its audacity Jitterbug Perfume for the incredible story and writing (I still remember this line from the intro, something that is nearly unprecedented for yours truly, Mr. Each of them is fantastic in its own way, although there are some consistencies in his style that are fantastic throughout his books - his completely mind-blowing use of language in the service of crazy descriptions, analogies, and similes, and his Crazy Theory, that point of each book that would in a more traditional author be the denouement, but in the Robbins oeuvre is where he unveils whatever crackpot (and compelling, if you're predisposed to such thoughts, as I am) theory he's holding on to at the time. I read every Tom Robbins book up to this one I've yet to read his latest two (or three, or however many there are). ![]() Almost everyone seems to go through that phase at some point, and then eventually that phase ends. Reading Tom Robbins is like reading Hunter S. ![]()
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