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By: Tom Robbins
Publisher: Bantam
April 01, 1990
Sure, you'll find perfume in here. You'll also find immortality, love, sex, ancient religion, beets, wisdom, revenge, double agents, lust, humor, thoughtfulness, philosophy...
And wonderfully phrased statements that will make you read them twice.
Jitterbug Perfume is probably one of the only books that I can honestly say that the journey really is the destination. I've never... more
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| 2. B Is for Beer | 
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By: Tom Robbins
Publisher: Ecco
April 21, 2009
A short work about beer for adults and for children. When you're reading it (I'd recommend a gandfather read this to his granddaughter) you'll both know how beer is made, how disappointments really aren't forever, and understand better how today's eccentric may be tomorrow's hero. Not as rich as Fierce Invalids, but certainly as Tom Robbins' a read.
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| 3. Still Life with Woodpecker | 
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By: Tom Robbins
Publisher: Bantam
April 01, 1990
Could not finish. Plot was lost to his "Peach fish fuzz" gross talk. The plot might have been ok but after reading half the book I lost interest after all his pre-adolecent musings. Should have been condensed to a teen pamphlet. ... more
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| 4. Another Roadside Attraction |
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By: Tom Robbins
Publisher: Bantam
April 01, 1990
Another Roadside Attraction has E V E R Y T H I N G!
A Cosmic weenie,
Puerto Rican clock,
artistic fleas,
divine prophetess with scarabs in her belly button,
The Indo-Tibetan Circus and Black Panda Gypsy Blues Band
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Jesus!
What more do you require in a book of wonder? Manically scrumptious sentences so inexplicably... more
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| 5. Even Cowgirls Get the Blues |
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By: Tom Robbins
Publisher: Bantam
April 01, 1990
I read this in the late seventies or early eighties.
What I remember most is the quote to the effect:
I don't care if it is real good, real bad, or real in~between, just as long as it is real.
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| 6. Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates |
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By: Tom Robbins
Publisher: Bantam
May 29, 2001
I love this book. I listen to it on TAPE as I drive from job to job on the freeways of Southern California. I rewind constantly to enjoy again and again the insightful, articulate and often hilarious ruminations of Tom Robbins. I purchased copies for all of my friends. Read "Fierce Invalids from Hot Climates". It will change your life...or at least the way you LOOK at life... more
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| 7. Skinny Legs and All |
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By: Tom Robbins
Publisher: Bantam
November 01, 1995
Perhaps I'm not that smart. Perhaps I don't care for lots of descriptions and big words. I'm not sure.
My buddy (who shall remain nameless, but her initials are W.L.) picked this for our book club and I couldn't get into it. I've heard great things about this author so I think I'll try another of his books, but this one wasn't for me... more
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| 8. Wild Ducks Flying Backward |
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By: Tom Robbins
Publisher: Bantam
August 29, 2006
Tom Robbins is a madman. His passionate love affair with language is surpassed only by his compassion for thoroughly mobile drive by turkeys, beet scented waitresses, chatty defensive sticks, wedding cake flavored pyramids, dynamite flavored woodpeckers, water logged socks, cantankerous and injured transgendered cans o' beans, and of course the ORIGINAL bombastic balloon boy sweet Haysoos.
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| 9. Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas |
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By: Tom Robbins
Publisher: Bantam
November 01, 1995
A co-worker and Tom Robbins fan recommended this book. This was my first time reading Tom Robbins' work, and this author is a fair genius with simile. (His description of the various inredients in a stir-fry veggie platter- where did he get ideas like that?) Dialogue was smart and witty. Belford Dunn's goody-goody character was over the top, and I couldn't get interested in Q-Jo Huffington because... more
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| 10. Siddhartha (Modern Library Classics) | 
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By: Hermann Hesse
Publisher: Modern Library
December 04, 2007
The book itself is a treasure, I can't add to any of the kudos it's received, but till now I've only been able to appreciate it in the original German (which is pretty simple and doesn't require a PhD in Germanic Studies to decode). The two English translations I have are simply a shame, with as much heart and poetry as the average daily newspaper column. This one, however, judging by the first chapter... more
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