Christen's review
Still Life with Woodpecker
by Tom Robbins
Christen's review
Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins
Christen's review
rating:
recommended for: horny teenagers
It's rare that a single scene or line from a book that rubs me the wrong way can completely take me out of it. In fact, without precedent. But a male lead character who starts dictating his (far-too-young-for-him) female partner's birth control method, without so much as asking politely, goes from Entertaining and Wacky Guy Who Just Burst On the Scene to That Icky, I-Know-What-Yooooou-Need, Seems-Insightful-But-Is-Really-Just-Manipulative-and-Psychotic Guy That I Dated Way Too Many Times When I Was the Female Lead Character's Age But He Never Came to Rescue Me in a Pyramid and HOW Many Times Has Tom Robbins Been Married?, and that was the death knell.
It's unfortunate, because while a few sentences were cringeworthy clunkers, the style was generally very dense and entertaining (though the LOL-'70s quality of it wore pretty thin pretty quickly as well).
I'm willing to give Robbins another chance, because surely not ALL of his books contain characters I want to see die by the end....more
It's unfortunate, because while a few sentences were cringeworthy clunkers, the style was generally very dense and entertaining (though the LOL-'70s quality of it wore pretty thin pretty quickly as well).
I'm willing to give Robbins another chance, because surely not ALL of his books contain characters I want to see die by the end....more
