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    <body><![CDATA[The ninth book I read on my commute in 2007.  I read this right after Ulysses, as kind of a palate-cleanser, since Tom Robbins is pretty far from James Joyce.  But I kept thinking as I read this one about how both it and Ulysses were so very much products of their respective times - Ulysses of Irela...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5411200">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Oh my goodness, how is that I always forget how much I love Tom Robbins? The man knows how to turn a phrase that is without equal in modern literature. If my funny bone could write love songs they would sound like him.<br/><br/>I find it hilarious that he writes constant asides about the typewrite...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4959546">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[this was the first robbins i ever read.  i loved this book.  the story is ridiculously wonderful.  his writing style is light and fast.  this is easy and fun stuff.<br/><br/>i do love how i was introduced to this book (and to the author).  the summer before i moved to dc i was living in oklahoma c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1270516">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I learned that if you have red hair you can write a crappy book and people will love it. I could have written this book in college. <br/><br/>The jokes were forced, the premise was too ridiculous to take seriously, and the payoff was weak, weak, weak. It was little more than a sophmoric creative w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2442149">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My favorite book of all time.  I used a quote from this book in my wedding vows. It is funny, silly, and romantic.   ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It has been a long time since I read this, but I do know is that I loved it.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I've been trying to think of how to review this book, but the only things that come to mind are metaphors for other senses... it's hue saturation is high, and it's gritty, bluesey and edgy the way Led Zeppelin is Metal. <br/><br/>The plot tends towards the absurd, which allows the story to perform...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23820874">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I first read this book in 1981 or thereabouts when I was married to my first husband. I had three children and felt completely trapped in a dangerously toxic, dead-end relationship that I saw no way out of. <br/><br/>Still Life with Woodpecker, more than anything else, is about CHOICE. About using...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21237861">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[As my lack of stars indicate, this book is ok.  However, the Best thing about the book is the following quote - one of the most influential in my life:<br/><br/>&quot;How can one person be more real than any other? Well, some people do hide and others seek. Maybe those who are in hiding--escaping ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20394761">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Tom Robbins is Tom Robbins is Tom Robbins, and you like him or you don't; I do. There is something about the stoner-cowboy vernacular of the thirty-something 1970s-era male that I find endlessly endearing. It is this vernacular that I am holding responsible for this book's tendency to remind me, con...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15790404">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not one of those people who <em>hates</em> or <em>loves</em> Tom Robbins, which I guess puts me in the minority.<br/><br/>I'm a redhead, thus why I chose this Robbins novel to start with. There, I admitted it.<br/><br/>The &quot;plot,&quot; to put it broadly, is about a well-intentioned albeit naive redheaded...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11648258">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'd heard this book wasn't as bad as some of the later Tom Robbins, where I think even he was getting tired of his schtick, but... Not by me.  So far the decline in my liking of Robbins books had been related to my reading the later ones later (proved by the exceptions), but not in this case.  Maybe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9869441">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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