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... that if you've read one Tom Robbins book, you've read them all. He even repeats phrases from book to book.
After I read Another Roadside Attraction (my first book of his) I remember wishing it was longer because it was so enjoyable. Then I read Villa Incognito and again, wished it was just ... Loved Even Cowgirls Get the Blues and Another Roadside Attraction when I was 15. Of course, I also loved Zen & The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance; thought The Fountainhead was profound; and probably would have loved Walden. Can't stomach any of 'em now. ... Blues when I was 17, but am sure that if I did a reread I would shake my head and wonder at myself. I was disappointed in Another Roadside Attraction, and he went downhill from there. Still Life with Woodpecker was a dog and Skinny Legs and All was a stinker beyond dog rating. Don't ask ... ... Eyes.
Commentators chided that The Careful Use of Compliments and Morality for Beautiful Girls should have prevented Another Roadside Attraction. But Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates cheered for The Fight Club.
Finally there was A Necessary End when the Last Man Standing ... ... ynchon
The Antipope by Robert Rankin (first in the 5 book Brentford trilogy series)
Malpertuis by Jean Ray
Another Roadside Attraction by Tom Robbins
Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
A Short, Sharp Shock by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Moor's Last Sigh by Salma ... Skinny Legs was a real stinker much like Still Life with Woodpecker. His early work was his best specifically Another Roadside Attraction and Even Cowgirls get the Blues. > his stuff has gotten weaker over the years
interesting - I completely disagree with that... I've just finished reading another roadside attraction and found it utterly tedious and boring, something I wouldn't even remotely say of anything else of his I've read, particularly not fierce ... Another Roadside attraction by Tom Robbins ... some part taking place in Washington and I adore the way he describes the the landscape, the rain especially. In fact, in Another Roadside Attraction there is one part where a character watches two others walk through the rain and unlike everybody else they don't hide their face and try to ... Aftermath - Peter Robinson
Agatha Raisin and the Wellspring of Death - M. C. Beaton
Another Roadside Attraction - Tom Robbins
Ballroom of the Skies - John D. MacDonald
Baseball: Our Game - John Thorn I should be starting God is an Englishman later tonight or tomorrow, as I'm just about to finish Tom Robbins's Another Roadside Attraction. (I'll probably post a review of that tomorrow if anyone's interested.)
I have to say, though, I'm a bit terrified of it. It came to me from 2 bags ... "On Tuesday morning, there was an unseasonal frost."
Another Roadside Attraction by Tom Robbins ... :
a wonderful, accurate and literate cookbook writer who has traveled to these places and learned from the locals:
Hot stuff A cookbook in praise ofthe piquant, containing hot recipes from all over;
and not primarily hot, but containing interesting hot stuff and also by Jessica B. Har ... Easy indeed.
Main Travelled Roads by Hamlin Garland
The Road to Gandolfo by Robert Ludlum
Another Roadside Attraction by Tom Robbins
The Verse by the Side of the Road: The Story of the Burma-Shave Signs and Jingles by Frank Rowsome
Glory Road by Robert A. Heinlein
... ... I ended up reading it anyway, behind her back.
I also recall her being concerned about me reading Tom Robbins' Another Roadside Attraction when I was quite young, though she never actually forbade me read it.
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