false 9567 12 When the stock market crashes on the Thursday before Easter, you — an ambitious, although ineffectual and not entirely ethical young broker — are convinced you're facing the Weekend from Hell. Before the market reopens on Monday, you're going to have to scramble and scheme to cover your butt, but there's no way you can anticipate the baffling disappearance of a 300-pound psychic, the fall from grace of a born-again monkey, or the intrusion in your life of a tattooed stranger intent on blowing your mind and most of your fuses. Over these fateful three days, you will be forced to confront everything from mysterious African rituals to legendary amphibians, from tarot-card bombshells to street violence, from your own sexuality to outer space. This is, after all, a Tom Robbins novel — and the author has never been in finer form. 713383 1997 Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas total:5886|5:1123|4:2106|3:1947|2:556|1:154| 5886 21146 6988 295 3 4 false false Tue Aug 21 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Apr 18 23:07:30 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 24 09:49:31 -0700 2008 “Disaster’s always best when it’s on a grand scale.”

… and the scale certainly is grand in Tom Robbins’ rollicking riot of a novel. It opens with the beginning of a disastrous three-day weekend for one Gwendolyn Mati, a lovingly unlikable stockbroker whose ambitions are sky...more...]]> 2 3 false false Fri May 09 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri May 09 16:31:10 -0700 2008 Fri May 09 16:44:33 -0700 2008
Unfortunately, it was more of the same from Robbins. Ham-fisted philosophizing, lurid sex, and purple prose. I guess if you were a teenager this would seem very literate and high-minded. Sadly, once you have read actual li...more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Jul 17 10:22:27 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 17 10:22:27 -0700 2008
I read every Tom Robbins book up to this one; I've yet to read his latest two (or three, or however many there are). Each of them is ...more...]]> 2 1 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Jul 07 01:35:25 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 24 23:21:51 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Oct 31 13:22:21 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 14 18:56:04 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 31 13:22:21 -0700 2008 2 A...more...]]> 2 2 false false Fri Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 1999 Tue Apr 22 12:42:10 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 22 12:49:19 -0700 2008
This was...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Fri Jun 29 05:13:52 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 19 06:35:18 -0800 2007 3 Tom Robbins read, I keep returning to it. There is something very charming about the prose, something very sucker-punch about our naive protagonist, something very engaging about the very short time-frame over which the tale plays out. I...more...]]> 5 0 true false Sat Aug 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 22 10:19:28 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 29 20:18:23 -0700 2009 2 more...]]> 1 1 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Tue Jan 29 00:37:42 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 29 01:22:11 -0800 2008
please, sir, i beseech you, nevermore even a single sapling felled for your shlock.

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Definitely my favorite line from this, my latest read from Tom Robbins. I want to start by saying that I used to LOVE Tom Robbins. Impecc...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Feb 14 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 24 11:34:59 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 14 11:53:21 -0800 2008 more...]]> 1 0 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 25 18:47:56 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 05 07:34:26 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1997 Wed Aug 12 10:51:52 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 11:00:07 -0700 2009
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