hmpk's review
Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
by Tom Robbins
hmpk's review
Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas by Tom Robbins
hmpk's review
rating:
Picked this up because I had down time but was stranded without reading material. But at least I was near the library. I love Tom Robbins but I've been told this is not his best work. I think I might agree. Maybe it's my mood today but if I read one more simile or metaphor I believe will chuck the book at the wall. Too bad, really, because the characters are interesting.
In all Tom Robbins books there is at least one passage that makes me need to go back and read it again, that needs to be dog-eared for later reference. Here is this book's version:
"Why should romance 'lead anywhere'? Passion isn't a path through the woods. Passion is the woods. It's the deepest, wildest part of the forest; the grove where the fairies still dance and obscene old vipers snooze in the boughs. Everybody but the most dried up and dysfunctional is drawn to the grove and enchanted by its mysteries, but then they just can't wait to call in the chain saws and bulldozers and replace it with a ...more
In all Tom Robbins books there is at least one passage that makes me need to go back and read it again, that needs to be dog-eared for later reference. Here is this book's version:
"Why should romance 'lead anywhere'? Passion isn't a path through the woods. Passion is the woods. It's the deepest, wildest part of the forest; the grove where the fairies still dance and obscene old vipers snooze in the boughs. Everybody but the most dried up and dysfunctional is drawn to the grove and enchanted by its mysteries, but then they just can't wait to call in the chain saws and bulldozers and replace it with a ...more
