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Summary: I'm just not his target audience anymore...
Review: ...BR>This book just bites though. It can't be good that I was seriously wishing the protagonist would just get killed, in a painful way if possible. If I read one more fat old man's theory about how young teenage girls are little sex machines, I'm going to scream. It seemed Tom was trying to normalize his main character's serious sickness by repeatedly (and I do mean repeatedly since he has to say everything 4 or 5 times in this book) explaining that it's all society's fault that 36 year olds aren't supposed to sleep with 15 year olds. So that's gross. Then you add the fact that the plot is moronic and apparently nobody actually edited this thing or suggested he tighten it up, so it draaaaags in many places.
The whole thing makes you want to take a shower and never read another one of his books, even if they are cleverly written.
Rating: 
Summary: Some filler, some killer
Review: The way this novel started out, I figured I'd be on a reading binge comparable to a Switters peyote trip. I was hooked by the crazy characters and mesmerized by the build-up and eventual journey into the Amazon. Unfortunately, that turned out to be the peak of my buzz. The Pike Street Market art girls scenes dragged on a bit too much, and that was tame in comparison to the laborious stretch of time in the Syrian nun convent.
However, I'll never abandon a Robbins novel because his prose is always too engaging. Despite losing a pulse-pounding plot, Robbins can always entertain with his creative metaphors and stunning imagery.
I'm sure I'll pick up the next Robbins novel. I just hope he finds some substance to help liven the pace.
Rating: 
Summary: another classic from the under-rated master
Review: Fierce Invalids is quite hard work but ultimately rewarding. It constantly amazes me that Robbins isn't revered as one of our greatest living writers. Always original and refreshing, increasingly controversial and delightfully inspirational.One for the incest shortlist!
Rating: 
Summary: At times fierce, at times hot, didn't want to go home
Review: This story was my first experience with Robbins and I truly liked it a great deal. The wild plot involves many great characters: a computer savvy Grandma who knows just about everyting about human nature, a defrocked group of nuns living in Syria, a South American Shaman with a head shaped like a pyramid and Switters, the philosophizing CIA adventurer who gets caught up in crossfire of almost all of the action.
For Audiobook, Keith Szarabajka's reading incorporates a wide variety of accents (of both genders) in a most entertaining fashion.
Rating:
Summary: Great book fun read
Review: If you have a personal philosophy this book will make you question it...if you don't it can give you one.
Rating:
Summary: Robbins........sweeeet!
Review: I was waiting anxiously for this book to come out and when it did, I snatched it up. I thoroughly enjoyed the tale of Switters, and was delighted with the pyramids, the nuns and the boat races. I was intrigued by Robbins'/Switters' take on the miracles at Fatima and enjoyed contrasting his views with those of my upbringing. All in all, a great book!
One complaint I have about this novel is the "Finnegan's Wake" references. I can see the relevance of introducing this topic, but it is completely overused. It is almost as if one of Robbins' buddies bet him that he could not mention "Finnegan's Wake" 74 times in one novel (no, I didn't actually count!).
Rating:
Summary: I really liked it.
Review: I didn't read "Frog Pajamas" on advice from some fellow
Robbins fans. I really liked this one though. Switters
is a total reprobate, but is as charming as they get. Robbins
seems to have polished his style -- the philosophical asides
are as good as ever.
Rating:
Summary: not this time
Review: I was extremely dissappointed by this Robbins Novel. I would not recommend this book to anyone with a young daughter, nor anyone with social conscious. Most of TR's books are borderline on who they poke fun at, but this one went too far on the pedofilia front. I hope the next novel falls closer to his previous ware, but may be afraid to take that chance.
Rating:
Summary: I love Tom Robbins and want to have his children.
Review: Well...maybe not. But I do love his writing and this book was no disappointment. Globehopping, agehopping, and culturehopping, as he so often does, I never tired of the naughty hero. Or the exquisite Domino. Perhaps, like Ellen Cherry Charles, Domino will reappear in the future. Dare I hope?
Between new Robbins releases, I frequently wander off chasing this or that "next Tom Robbins", I have found that none of these heralded geniuses can hold the proverbial candle to my sweetie.
I can't wait for your next one, Mr. Robbins (may I call you Tom?)...although I know I must.
Rating:
Summary: Magical Mystery Tour
Review: Tom Robbins has this amazing ability to draw you into
a world in which he defines the parameters and casually
draws the reader into an internal debate over basic life
assumptions. I always appreciate a writer who can tell
a story, but when you find a writer who can do this on
a couple of different levels, that is rare indeed. I would
highly recommend you book a ticket for this one.
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