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Jitterbug Perfume

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Jitterbug Perfume is an epic. which is to say, it begins in the forests of ancient Bohemia and doesn't conclude until nine o'clock tonight [Paris time]. It is a saga, as well. A saga must have a hero, and the hero of this one is a janitor with a missing bottle. The bottle is blue, very, very old, and embossed with the image of a goat-horned god. If the liquid in the bottle...more

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Published December 1984 by Bantam

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Mar 25, 2013 Clouds - (¿head-in-the?) rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, fantasy-stand-alone, reviewed, read-in-2012

A man cannot live on award winning Sci-Fi alone!

Following the resounding success of my Locus Quest, I faced a dilemma: which reading list to follow it up with? Variety is the spice of life, so I’ve decided to diversify and pursue six different lists simultaneously. This book falls into my GIFTS & GUILTED list.

Sometimes people gift you books you want which barge their way into your reading list. Sometimes people gift you other books and you feel guilty for not reading them...

Let's jump straig...more

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Feb 09, 2011 Mariel rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: beetles

Recommended to Mariel by: beetniks

If that cliche (is it a cliche? It's said a thousand times) were true about pictures being worth a thousand words...

This is a beet book. Robbins didn't BEAT us over the head with the beets. I was all over the beets like beets in borscht. (Hey, so were other goodreaders. Nice!)

What are words worth? William Wordsworth probably knows. I'm with Slugsworth. We try to steal Willy Wonka's chocolate recipes and the words from others. I'm gonna eavesdrop.

However, the horny goats were less experimental t...more

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Apr 04, 2009 oriana rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: read-2009

post-read: Ohhhh, I really missed reading Robbins. What fun!

This book was both more and less wonderful than I'd remembered. More because I'd forgotten just what a superb stylist Robbins is (see mid-read comments). His plots are intricate, his characters are rendered in wonderful detail, down to the distinctive vocal stylings. His ideas, though perhaps a smidge stale twenty-five years on, are still interesting and fun and clever and smart, intellectual, but not in a showy or pedantic way. Plus t...more

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Dec 07, 2008 Trin rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, american-lit

Well, I officially don’t get Tom Robbins. People have recommended him on the basis of comparisons to Douglas Adams, but Adams is, you know, funny. Here’s what seems to pass for humor in a Tom Robbins novel: beets (the very existence of), a woman getting stung in a delicate place by a bee, and lesbians (the very existence of). And here’s the kind of prose you can look forward to:

The sky, layered with thin altostratus clouds and smog, appeared to reflect human suffering and failed to awaken in Cl...more

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Sep 15, 2008 Scott rated it 4 of 5 stars

Tom Robbins is, to me, like the band Rush (I know this seems like I'm trying too hard, but honestly, this is the best analogy I can come up with & this is legitmately the first thing that came to mind): You like them ok, and even get a bit excited when they come up on the radio, but when you're grabbing CDs for your car, your copy of "Moving Pictures" somehow never quite makes the cut. That's how it is with me and Tom Robbins. Well written? Check. Interesting characters? Check. Unique? Doubl...more

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May 17, 2008 Morgan rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: po-mo-dahling

I keep feeling like this book is like something else that I've read, but I couldn't tell you what that something else is.

I guess it's kinda like Kurt Vonnegut meets Robert Anton Wilson meets . . . maybe Chuck Palahniuk, emphasis on maybe, but very much Vonnegut meets Wilson.

And kinda Philip K. Dick, a little, just less of the science fiction and more of the mind-blowing philosophical standpoint.

That being said, I liked it. It's incredibly dense, in the sense that there is so much in it. The lang...more

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Jul 16, 2008 Garen rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Hm. What to say about this guy . . . this is totally a guy you either love or hate, and yet I find myself strangely ambivalent. There are some things i really appreciated about the book and his style, and there are some things I really didn't care for. Whatever one says about this writer, the first is that he is a complete iconoclast of Rabelasian proportion. He ignores pretty much every rule that fiction writers generally, in good taste, abide by. And to an extent that's quite refreshing. He's...more Hm. What to say about this guy . . . this is totally a guy you either love or hate, and yet I find myself strangely ambivalent. There are some things i really appreciated about the book and his style, and there are some things I really didn't care for. Whatever one says about this writer, the first is that he is a complete iconoclast of Rabelasian proportion. He ignores pretty much every rule that fiction writers generally, in good taste, abide by. And to an extent that's quite refreshing. He's incomparably clever at turning a phrase. His imagination is boundless. Through the first 50 or so pages I was very skeptical, but then he got me, and the reading went much quicker. I also have a lot of appreciation for his message, and that message is consistent with the manner in which he writes. I can therefore conclude that Tom Robins is simply writing who he is, and that's pretty much all one can ask of any author . . .

That being said, here come the complaints. I guess my biggest complaint was the fact that the novel's pull depended so much upon the author's cleverness. The characters all have roughly the same sense of humor (which I suspect is very much like Mr. Robins' own) and I felt they could have been interchanged with one another into different roles and it wouldn't have made a difference. And I guess that's it - I was so aware of the writer and his tongue in cheek (or tongue in ass?) wit that the characters remained at a distance from me, as if they were on a stage, and when the novel stalled (which was not often) I was painfully aware of this distance. At those points they seemed like characters from a Beckett or Pirandello play wandering about in search of direction. Robins is perhaps too overtly the master puppeteer with his many strings dangling from quick moving fingers . . .

The big question for me when I finished the novel was 'Why did I not connect on an emotional level with the characters?' The novel is wonderfully humorous, the author's aim is admirable, and he treats his characters with a decided tenderness; yet despite this I was left feeling a little aloof. And I think it was because of one thing: his characters don't change. They don't struggle. They struggle, but they don't seem to struggle as much with the reasons why they do things. They struggle with two things: bills and cosmic issues. In that order. I might have loved this novel ten or fifteen years ago.

Which leads me to my third and final criticism. This novel reminded me at times of Ayn Rand. Whom I despise. It also reminded me of BF Skinner, who wrote perhaps the worst novel (Walden II) in the history of novel writing. How can I compare someone like Tom Robins to Ayn Rand? How can I compare the leaping imagination of Tom Robins with the clinical sensibility of Skinner? Why they seem like total opposites! Ah but they are, in a way, the same. You see to Ayn Rand things like characters are always subservient to her greater (and stupid) purpose of telling all people to act like butt-holes, and then they will be better off. And though Tom Robins has quite the opposite message, his characters are still subservient to his ideas, and I tend to think that characters need a little more elbow room than that. Characters are people too, after all.

I was going to give this book 3 stars, based on my enjoyment level, but then I realized you know what? I've never read a book like this before and it definitely got me to thinking. Thinking of the serious, head-scratching variety. I can't say I'm going to rush out and buy his oeuvres, but I will pick one up the next time I'm feeling guilty about loafing about or surfing too much. And for that? 4 stars for you Tom Robins!(less)

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Aug 15, 2008 D'Arcy rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I have vacillated between a four and five star rating on this. I LOVE the words. Each page was a delicious treat that kept me on the edge of my seat...what metaphor or simile or pun would Robbins pull out of the treasure chest that is his brain? I fell in LOVE with the language. I know it sounds weird, but the way he wrote about the beet and all vegetables on the very first page sold me. I knew this book would be amazing.

The only thing that keeps me from giving it 100% are the main story lines....more

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Nov 03, 2008 Kelly rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: pervy teenage boys

Recommended to Kelly by: Ryan, Holly

Shelves: general_fiction

Told to read this by my boyfriend who declared that I NEEDED to read this book to understand him, I am now disgusted and reconsidering my relationship. Ok, I'm kidding, but I take solace in the fact he read this book in high school.

Oddly enough, my best friend also said this is her favorite book.

Either I'm surprised to discover I'm a prude, or Robbins wastes way too much of a promising book on misogynistic fantasies of all women as nymphomaniacs who live and breathe to seduce and pleasure their...more

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Aug 20, 2007 Steve rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Here’s a question for those who have read Tom Robbins: How would you describe him to the uninitiated? Certainly you’d have to say he’s quirky, in a wordplayful sort of way. His eccentric use of metaphors is like a Catskills comedian’s use of one-liners – it’s a big part of the act. There’s usually some substance to his writing, too. The social commentary is often straight from the flower power perspective, but he’s more insightful than most when it comes to articulating a view. He was an art maj...more

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Sep 17, 2012 Gertie rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I was surprised at how much I liked this book... it's been a long time (we're talking over a decade) since I've read a Tom Robbins book and my expectations weren't terribly high for this one.

I knew absolutely nothing about the story when I began reading, so it was a pleasant surprise to find that it was the type of story I usually enjoy. It includes a "skilled underdog" story (a young female perfumer), and an immortality story, which is often pretty fascinating, and includes kings, alternate di...more

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May 22, 2009 Jennifer rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: enemies.

Recommended to Jennifer by: a million different people

i've found that with tom robbins' novels, you either love it or hate it. i hated this one. disappointing since so many people have told me that i "HAD" to read it, assured that i would just love it. for the record, i liked 'still life with woodpecker' and 'skinny legs and all.' i didn't care for 'even cowgirls get the blues' and thought this one was so full of shit that the topic of perfume was so sorely needed to cover the overwhelming stench. maybe i just wasn't in the right mindset. maybe i'm...more

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Aug 21, 2007 Sara rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

What's up with the juvenile sex talk, man? Ugh it's a great story, pretty funny and exciting and all, but he just has to throw in descriptions of genitals and sex acts wherever he can. I'm certainly no prude, but that doesn't mean that I need to know about every erection and scenario where the main characters have more sex in five minutes of reading than most people have all month! And I'm sorry, but there is no way to make a clever metaphor for boners or boobs or whatever. It's a waste of good...more

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Dec 01, 2010 BurningYourBooks rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, mind-fuck

As with anything Robbins writes I find myself hard pressed to find a way to accurately describe his work. Or the plot, or the style or even the characters come to think of it. Perhaps this is why the descriptions on the back of his books are always so obtuse, more like pieces of a puzzle that can only be deciphered upon completion of the book so that we, the readers, armed with our literary decoder rings can go back over them and say "ah, yes so the main character really WAS a janitor the whole...more

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Mariel I like your review. I've read books that came out afterwards that I felt the author must've liked Jitterbug Perfume a whole lot. I don't think they qu...more
Dec 01, 2010 01:33am

A Davis I appreciate this review, especially the part where you compare it to the tunnel in Willy Wonka. Though I have to comment on this: I don't see the end...more
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BurningYourBooks A wrote: "I appreciate this review, especially the part where you compare it to the tunnel in Willy Wonka. Though I have to comment on this: I don't s...more
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Sep 12, 2010 Gina rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. I avoided Tom Robbins novels for years particularly because my old boyfriend was such a fanatic about him and even when I was deep into him, we disagreed on most literature. The way he and his pretentious 20-something arty bros talked about Robbins put me off in a big way. Lately, I've been getting multiple nudges from friends who know I've been researching olfaction so I gave in and read JP for research.

My original instinct was correct: this is a novel for the all-male tribe I call "toilet phil...more I avoided Tom Robbins novels for years particularly because my old boyfriend was such a fanatic about him and even when I was deep into him, we disagreed on most literature. The way he and his pretentious 20-something arty bros talked about Robbins put me off in a big way. Lately, I've been getting multiple nudges from friends who know I've been researching olfaction so I gave in and read JP for research.

My original instinct was correct: this is a novel for the all-male tribe I call "toilet philosophers" because most of the philosophy they read was while they were on the pot. Aside from its misogyny, the lamest thing about this novel is the spiritual message clumsily tacked onto the plot and heavily underscored in the last 40 pages.

I must admit that there are some admirable aspects about JP. It is well researched and I like the playful attitude towards myth, history, perfume and food. I found the narrative arc (minus the pseudo-spirituality) well crafted and interesting.

What I cannot stand is the novel's sloppy, infantile lewdness and its utterly misogynistic treatment of women. Each and every female character is about as deep as raindrop. In many ways, this novel is like a macho version of a Jackie Collins' novel where the plot gets in the way of all the more important sex scenes and blowjobs.

Don't get me wrong, I like sex scenes and Jackie Collins. The sex scenes in JP, however, are like watching a really drunk fatso try to get his groove on as if he were James Bond. The detail with which BJs are described makes these scenes like literary money shots, but in this porn, the women are gagging to be groped by slobs, crusty old lechers, handicapped, satyrs, and so on. It's truly painful. This book had so much semen on the pages, I felt I needed to wash my hands after each time I picked it up.

And in case you think that sexual subservience can be some sort of "modern, women-choose-to-please-on-their-knees feminism," it gets better. When the would-be heroine finally gets laid, her attempts to be sexy are mocked by the narrator's painstaking description of how shamefuly ugly and ill-fitting her clothes and underwear are. Lucky for her, the handsome one-eyed Irishman is a horndog and she's the only woman in the room. Except for the fat spinster, the female characters are all led by their vaginas despite their professional ambition. And that's what turns out to be the main joke of the novel: that women have professional ambition at all.

The "lesbian" character never gets the girl she's lusted after but settles instead for becoming her best pal. Sounds modern and empowering, right? Another female character is gruesomely stung by a bee on her perineum and luckily a creepy Frenchman is present to soothe her sting. barf.

Other problems are Robbins' really bad, self-indulgent puns, mixed metaphors and wrongheaded literary elbow nudges that seem designed to show the readers how well read he is since they add nothing to the plot. They are real groaners like "a populace that was puting Descartes before des horse."

Reading this novel made me so glad I left that Robbins'-lovin dude and his horny toilet philosophizing crew behind. Tom Robbins reminds me of other writers who combine vulgarity and humor (Vonnegut, Rabelais, Chaucer, Boris Vian, Alfred Jarry) but without their soul, intelligence, political engagement and verbal finesse. Read their work instead for hotter sex scenes, finer wit and more sophisticated style.
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Feb 08, 2010 Rachel rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I loved the beginning and the ending! I liked the author's hilariously witty writing style, and I do think he is genius for coming up with all of this stuff, including the sweeping plot that goes across continents and centuries, and the bizarre sexual similes and metaphors he casually throws in here and there. Once I got to the ending and saw how everything came together, I smiled from ear to ear. At that moment, I was very glad I had read the whole thing, it was quite satisfying. HOWEVER ... wh...more

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Nov 03, 2009 Jana rated it 2 of 5 stars

Two stars, and I’m being nice. And I am a f*cking huge fan of beetroot.

For the last few weeks, I’ve been eating it like it’s the only vegetable on the menu. It’s good for iron in the blood, and I like it pickled, raw and boiled. I could eat it constantly. I love sex as well, I love reading about it. Of course you want to know a lot about.

But this book was hysterical. In the beginning I was so enthusiastic, and Alobar had a face and body of Gerard in ‘300’ movie. Oh la la la, take me, take me,...more

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May 26, 2008 Tori rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Anyone who is open minded and who is not squeamish

This book is RIDICULOUS! Its a huge, dense story in a small package. I thought I would speed right through it, but it is so dense that it has taken me nearly 3 weeks to get through it.
I recommend this book highly. Its smart, thought-provoking, and over-the-top. I have never read anything like it before.
The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars is that the incessant absurd metaphors that Robbins uses grow tiresome after the first few chapters. At first they seem clever, but then after the first 20...more

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Feb 28, 2008 asteroidbuckle rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Fans of quirky fiction

Shelves: funny-satirical

Breathe properly. Bathe often. Eat your veggies (especially beets). Have lots of sex. These are the keys to staying young and living longer. Oh, and it's all intimately linked with our sense of smell.

At times hysterically funny, at times excruciatingly tedious ("Dannyboy's Theory" at the end made me want to gouge my eyes out with a shrimp fork), this book was, overall, good.

Not great. Not wonderful. Just good.

The book is full of odd characters who are likeable to varying degrees. I liked Marcel...more

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Sep 06, 2012 Saha rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: most-favorite

Uniquely written, deeply satisfying as well as profoundly alarming, Jitterbug Perfume has it all. As a lover of Tom Robbins' writing style, his flexible plot lines, and the unique way he portrays his characters, I consider this his Magnum Opus. The clever, captivating, and quite often smug prose is the only right tone for these profound characters to evolve, and the carefully-crafted complex setting compliments a plot full of excitement. A Must-Read for sure.

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Jun 24, 2008 Kelly rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: people who like beets & meditation & nice smells & making out. (i.e. myself.)

Recommended to Kelly by: me old housemate Kate

Shelves: greatest_hits

As I'd said to my friend Juliana, once I'd started this book: part of me wonders what took me so long between being recommended the book in 1996 and finally getting around to reading it, like, TODAY. But then another part of me knows that I did not yet dig so heavily on, say, beets and Tibetan Buddhism (both of which have figured crucially by p. 116) back in 1996. And then, oh my God, an accordionist, a crucial accordionist, appears! I mean really.

So maybe I had to, you know, get with it, befor...more

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Jul 02, 2008 Vanessa rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This was my first Tom Robbins novel, and is still my favorite. I am reading it again because after a TR drought, I tried to read Another Roadside Attraction (my 6th TR I think) and have really not been able to catch on... So I feel like I've forgotten what it was that I like about TR and I'm getting to know him all over again.

For being my first Tom Robbins, I can see now why I started to like him: the epic style, millenia-crossing arcs, the witty metaphors, the dabbling in religious theory... I...more

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Jul 05, 2008 Jen rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: comedy, miscellaneous-fiction, philosophy, religion-mythology-occult, romance, world-culture, book-club

Jitterbug Perfume was the first Tom Robbins book I ever read, back in the spring of my freshman year of college in 1996 (thanks, Yanek!). I fell in love instantly. If you've never read a Robbins book before, I will warn that they are not for everyone - he likes to push the envelope when it comes to social pre-conceptions, religion, relationships, etc. - but if you tend to like weird, quirky, philosophical stories, you owe to yourself to give at least one of his books a try. This one focuses on t...more

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Jul 12, 2009 Kim rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: fans of Christopher Moore, maybe Terry Pratchett

Shelves: bookclub

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Reminds me of Christopher Moore's books - eccentric and ambitious. Sometimes it works, sometimes not so much. I enjoyed this quite a bit until about 2/3 of the way through, when a new character is introduced who is prone to long fits of rambling lectures. I'm not opposed to lecturing per se, but when it's on a topic in a fiction book, I tend to feel that the author is wasting my time. Any pacing or momentum in the book screeches to a halt the second this character e...more

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Aug 09, 2007 Tiffany rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: lovers of humor and sex

In all of Tom Robbins' books, even the ones I love, there is something about the way he treats gender that keeps me a little on edge. It seems that in one moment of time (1970, Sexual Revolution, there was a Fu Manchu mustache involved), he discovered a new way of thinking about women, and since then, he hasn't found a plot twist, metaphor, or character that doesn't, in some way, lead back to our orgasms, in all their Robbins-inflected glory. That said, nobody tells a story like Tom Robbins. Jit...more

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Dec 05, 2007 Kristain rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Artsy Hippies

I LOVE this book. It is my favorite by Tom Robbins that I have read so far. It talks about SOOOOO much. All in all the message is basically: "lighten up." In other words, be light hearted and just live life. It talks about how science and art, although they tend to oppose eachother, actually intercect and are just two parts of the same thing. It implies that everything is just a part of one big thing. It also talks about living life with a healthy attitude. It even gives credit to "the genius wa...more

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Aug 04, 2011 Orr Hirschauge added it · review of another edition

Abstract: Too clever for its own sake. Too new age for my sake. Too long for anybody's sake.

Ok. So I have something anti-New-Age. But unlike what many think this is not because of basic assumptions, or at least the more bluntly obvious ones. It's because of the lack of other such. For instance "control your thoughts and you can control everything". Instead of arguing about its truth or falseness, which is what most pro New-Age conversants bring up, I would rather discuss the nature of this state...more

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Mar 05, 2013 Plamen Miltenoff added it · review of another edition

Recommended to Plamen by: Chris Mouxhet

p. 76 Of our nine planets, Saturn is the one that looks like fun. Of our trees, the palm is obviously the stand-up comedian. Among fowl, the jester's cap is worn by the duck. Of our fruits and vegetables, the tomato could play Falstaff, the banana, a more slapstick role. As Hamlet-or Macbeth-the beet is a cast
p. 83 The price of self-destiny is never cheap, and in certain situations it is unthinkable. But to achieve the marvelous, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
p. 92 "Rude...more

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Feb 19, 2013 Yona rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Hitchhiker's of the Galaxy fans over the age of 18

Recommended to Yona by: Professor

Shelves: time-travel, transformation

B -

B is for bees, bandaloop dancing, and b-e-a-utiful use of mutliple story threads that gradually culminate into one for a fun ride. The turn-by-turn reveals were well done! The characters were super funny.

E -

E is for esoteric word choices. I'm glad I was reading it on a Kindle, because at least once every couple of pages I had to look up an obscure word. It was almost always done in the name of humor more than because the author wanted to appear smarter though, as far as I could tell, so it wa...more

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Oct 09, 2012 Beau rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. I really liked the way this book was written...very humorous and clever. This is the first Robbins novel I've read and I think I will read more of his stories in the future. Jitterbug perfume was very philosophical and written in a way that was almost like magical realism...which I loved. However, I feel like this book was unnecessarily wordy at times which made it a bore to read. Sometimes I wasn't sure if the euphemisms and subtext Robbins often included were relevant to the overlying story or...more

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