false <![CDATA[Still Life with Woodpecker]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166031048m/9566.jpg 9566 18 <b>Still Life with Woodpecker</b> is sort of a love story that takes place inside a pack of Camel cigarettes.  It reveals the purpose of the moon, explains the difference between criminals and outlaws, examines the conflict between social activism and romantic individualism, and paints a portrait of contemporary society that includes powerful Arabs, exiled royalty, and pregnant cheerleaders.  It also deals with the problem of redheads. 1105809 1980 Still Life with Woodpecker total:14720|5:4722|4:5776|3:3248|2:758|1:216| 14720 58190 17292 1110 5 11 false false Mon Jul 07 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 17 00:24:35 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 24 00:28:17 -0700 2008
Tom Robbins is one of those writers, along with folks like Hunter S. Thompson, Thomas Pynchon, Georges Perec, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Richard Ford, and a few others that I not only "get,"...more...]]> 1 8 false false Fri Jun 01 11:55:37 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 01 11:55:37 -0700 2007 more...]]> 1 3 true false Wed Aug 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 06 10:13:06 -0800 2008 Mon Aug 18 18:15:24 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 3 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Sat Sep 29 12:19:57 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 01 07:04:00 -0700 2007 Leigh-Cheri sent that message to Bernard through his attorney. The message continued, "I'm not quite 20, but, thanks to you, I've...more...]]> 5 2 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 31 06:13:11 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 03 10:45:50 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 2 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1996 Thu May 17 08:38:18 -0700 2007 Thu May 24 14:35:35 -0700 2007
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...more...]]> 4 2 false false Fri May 25 20:11:02 -0700 2007 Fri May 25 20:12:10 -0700 2007 1. Tell love you are going to the Junior's Deli on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to pick up a cheesecake, and if love stays, it can have half. It will stay.
2. Tell love you want a memento of it and obtain a lock of its hair. Burn the hair in a dime-store inc...more...]]> 1 2 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Jun 27 08:30:23 -0700 2007 Wed Jun 27 08:43:08 -0700 2007
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...more...]]> 4 2 false false Sun Apr 15 18:28:25 -0700 2007 Sun Apr 15 18:47:03 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Feb 14 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 20 23:28:45 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 20 23:29:22 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 3 false false Sat Aug 30 16:27:05 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 30 16:28:04 -0700 2008 5 2 false false Mon Jun 23 00:40:56 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 23 00:41:22 -0700 2008 4 1 false false Wed Jan 28 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Oct 08 18:39:09 -0700 2008 Wed Feb 04 10:24:14 -0800 2009
"Neoteny" is "remaining young," and it may be ironic that it is so little known, because human evolution ha...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Oct 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 05 19:31:24 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 27 21:21:13 -0700 2008
The plot tends towards the absurd, which allows the story to perform...more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 1981 Tue Apr 29 06:42:06 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 30 12:21:18 -0700 2008
Still Life with Woodpecker, more than anything else, is about CHOICE. About using...more...]]> 0 1 false false Thu Apr 17 11:52:20 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 21 10:25:29 -0700 2008
"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 ...more...]]> 3 2 false false Sat Feb 09 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 19 08:56:53 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 19 09:27:03 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Fri Mar 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 04 12:51:59 -0800 2008 Fri Mar 06 00:19:52 -0800 2009 1 hates or loves Tom Robbins, which I guess puts me in the minority.

I'm a redhead, thus why I chose this Robbins novel to start with. There, I admitted it.

The "plot," to put it broadly, is about a well-intentioned albeit naive redheaded...more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 03 00:59:11 -0800 2007 Fri Dec 28 22:25:53 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Sep 07 10:44:19 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 07 10:44:22 -0700 2007
Once, Princess Leigh-Cheri used a papal candlestick for the purpose of self-gratification. She had hoped that at the appropriate moment she might be visited by either the Lamb or the Beast, but, as usual, only Ralph Nader attended ...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=9566