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Still Life with Woodpecker
by Tom Robbins

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<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9566.Still_Life_with_Woodpecker?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Still Life with Woodpecker" border="0" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166031048m/9566.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9566.Still_Life_with_Woodpecker?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Still Life with Woodpecker</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/197.Tom_Robbins">Tom Robbins</a><br/><br/>
  <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13258509?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a>
  rating: 4 of 5 stars<br/>I liked this a lot. It speaks to me. I love the idea of the Outlaw being in love with Love and life, and damn everything else. Couple problems though: One with Robbins' writing; One with his philosophy. Writng first--too many similies that just stopped me. They make no sense. They don't help me to see, or set a mood, or understand. They're just plain dumb--too cute comes to mind. His philosophy--if society has no consequence, which is what he implies, then why be an Outlaw? He asserts society and its rules create "dullards." True enough; but that's hardly inconsequental. His idea that CHOICE is a gift from aliens (read the book) is not a whole lot different than the Christian belief that free will is a gift from god. And this bothers me: writing IS consequental, it is a part of what he acknowledges--that everything matters. I'm afraid this book, and I do like it a lot, contributed to the "bonfire of the vanities." 
<br/>Books have impact, especially good ones. I can forgive him, though, because I was alive and an outlaw during the 70's & 80's ... drinking tequila, smoking dope, and snorting coke--just like Robbins. 
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M.'s review
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recommended for: philosphers & historians

I liked this a lot. It speaks to me. I love the idea of the Outlaw being in love with Love and life, and damn everything else. Couple problems though: One with Robbins' writing; One with his philosophy. Writng first--too many similies that just stopped me. They make no sense. They don't help me to see, or set a mood, or understand. They're just plain dumb--too cute comes to mind. His philosophy--if society has no consequence, which is what he implies, then why be an Outlaw? He asserts society and its rules create "dullards." True enough; but that's hardly inconsequental. His idea that CHOICE is a gift from aliens (read the book) is not a whole lot different than the Christian belief that free will is a gift from god. And this bothers me: writing IS consequental, it is a part of what he acknowledges--that everything matters. I'm afraid this book, and I do like it a lot, contributed to the "bonfire of the vanities."
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