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Summary: Well, its tom allright...
Review: OK, the scene is fantastical and the characters are a little strange but they dont, in tom style seem unapproachable. Tom has a way of doing better than "normal people in extraordinary situations" bit. rather it is strange people in a strange land and he makes you believe it. Wild metaphors and brilliant observations abound. You would be hard pressed NOT to come away with Something excellent from this book-j
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Summary: I'm amazed that anyone could possibly enjoy this book.
Review: This book should be douched out of existence. I'm amazed that anyone could enjoy this pointless, digressive orgy of self-indulgence. Tom Robbins may have a flair for creative, zany analogies, but strung together endlessly, they amount to nothing and make the book simply one big banal mixed metaphor. Flush it; don't read it.
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Summary: a beautiful, indelible addition to the imagination
Review: This book is one of those rare experiences that can transport you to a world of emotional and intellectual bliss. Even thinking about this book can get you there. I remember carrying a supply of cloves and butterscotch Life Savers after I first read it. Reading ECGtB made me realize what language is capable of, and how thoroughly it can express our desires and observations. Delicious!!!
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Summary: Yeah right
Review: I think Robbins, in his effort to sound deep and thoughtful (and bohemian too), lost control of a good idea and spent most of the book drifting around. Of course, this is the first Robbins book I read, and although I hear that others are better, I don't know, it'll be a while 'till I try again...
Too bad because I really thought I was going to like it. Oh well...
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Summary: Intoxicatingly Funny
Review: Robbins knows how to preach from a paisly colored pulpit and reach his golden nose into everything that is not his business. He flips the pancake so many times that blueberries appear. Cowgirls is a novel about the frentic search for enlightenment using what we have against us...our thumbs. Read this book before you try acid. It is better.
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Summary: To have the reader obtain backround of my book.
Review: I wrote this book to show mankind that woman can demolish " the men" of society. It's totally sick if one thinks about it. Tom Robbins
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Summary: This book is hilarious, philosophical, symbolic, brilliant
Review: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (By a genious named Robbins--Tom Robbins)is one of the most interesting books Ive ever read. I think it touched me mostly because I started it in America, and I finished it in Spain. I was there for four months and I was going through the whole "Now that I have another country to compare it to, what is America really like?" thing and this book gave me good points of outlook for my analyzation(which I'm still conducting). I will not mention any part of the plot in my review (and I know that's a tad, uh, different)because I fear I may ruin the experience if you do not read it in full context. If you are interested in thinking "outside of the box" this book will definitly point you towards outward boxliness (I don't suppose I have as wide a vocabulary as Robbins). If you wish to know what a true free spirit is, or what they think about, or how they express themselves freely, than this is your book. Even Cowgirls proves that even when we're close to the year 2000, we can still write things that make congress and a whole bunch of our general society cringe over the whole freedom of speech thing, because this book takes risks. Robbins is a unique writer and he beautifully ties his original sense of humor in with culture, philosophy, and a perfect touch of anarchism. I recommend it for anybody who has decided not to take life too seriously, or anybody who's tired of cliches and\or cheesy sex novels. Word.
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Summary: Mind-blowing book :)
Review: I read "Even cowgirls get the blues" for the first time almost 20 years ago, and I'm still involved with it! Beware innocent readers, the wit, the charm, the freshness of Sissy and friends are likely to crack your shell and expand your consciousness... Thumbs up! Xtatic digits!
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Summary: TR Tries too Hard
Review: Robbins reminds me of the over-hyped Jerry Seinfeld (who also is not as funny or clever as he thinks). They both try too hard.
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Summary: Reread once yearly to clear out detritus of the soul
Review: Yes I'm part of the whooping crane cult, pod'ner. Have been since my Sissy-esque adolescence--the best time for the first read (That sentence may be knocked up; it missed its period.) It is a brilliant, irreverent ode to pariah-ness and perpetual motion that gorgeously thumbs its nose, and noses its thumb, at social and literary convention. Simply roccocomo. All the world's tumbleweed spirits must read.
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