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Book Review
I am a full book removed from Another Roadside Attraction. I believe this gives me perspective like opening a door for a girl to notice how she looks from behind.
The book is about hippies. Hippies so hardcore they don't even associate with hippies. A friend turned me onto Tom Robbins' work and I decided to give it a try starting with this first book of his. His style is amazingly imaginative and creates metaphors that reverberate in their uniqueness, such as when one girl gets a bad case of diarrhea and says she feels liked a "squeezed cream puff".
The main characters are a clairvoyant butterfly aficionado turned goddess, a modern day existential Tarzan-esque drummer, an ambivalent scientist on the run from alimony payments, a former football star, now a drug dealer/abortiont's agent, who falls into association with a secret sect of the Roman Catholic Church, and an ever vigilant baboon.
That short description of just a few characters gives some insight in how "out there" this book can get. It is definitely a book for open minded people since it requires a high level of detatchment from reality. In truth that's what books are meant for though so perhaps Tom Robbins' novela accomplishes its purpose by being so adventurous in how far it stretches the eccentricities of his characters. He also must've been on or around as many drugs as those hippies were also.
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The book is about hippies. Hippies so hardcore they don't even associate with hippies. A friend turned me onto Tom Robbins' work and I decided to give it a try starting with this first book of his. His style is amazingly imaginative and creates metaphors that reverberate in their uniqueness, such as when one girl gets a bad case of diarrhea and says she feels liked a "squeezed cream puff".
The main characters are a clairvoyant butterfly aficionado turned goddess, a modern day existential Tarzan-esque drummer, an ambivalent scientist on the run from alimony payments, a former football star, now a drug dealer/abortiont's agent, who falls into association with a secret sect of the Roman Catholic Church, and an ever vigilant baboon.
That short description of just a few characters gives some insight in how "out there" this book can get. It is definitely a book for open minded people since it requires a high level of detatchment from reality. In truth that's what books are meant for though so perhaps Tom Robbins' novela accomplishes its purpose by being so adventurous in how far it stretches the eccentricities of his characters. He also must've been on or around as many drugs as those hippies were also.
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