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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9569.Villa_Incognito?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Villa Incognito" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1166031051m/9569.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9569.Villa_Incognito?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Villa Incognito</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/20800972?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 3 of 5 stars<br/>This could have been a very fun romp, but the author's political opinions, reflecting the baby-boomer sentiment shine through: Academic, peace nik and religiously agnostic (and holding those that feel differently in contempt). If I, the kid of someone who shares these opinions exactly noticed the bais, I wonder if others do and how accessible this book would be to someone who is not liberal and raised in the 1960s and 70s. The author's lack of respect for certain American instituions really made it hard to appreciate the character sketches that he was creating. While Robbins is certainly allowed to be critical of certain government agencies, naming a character Mayflower and having him be vile and bigoted isn't a persuasive or even helpful critique of the C.I.A. Everything felt too heavy handed. <br/> <br/>I really enjoyed the story about the tanuki at the beginning of the book, the abstract, reality-suspending segment, set sometime around the turn of the century Japan really captured my attention. I was much more interested in those fun-loving, philosophy-adled creatures than the group of three MIA vets. The tanukis were fun and exciting while the Americans were just self-important and long-winded. Robbins goal was to use them to hold up a mirror to modern America, but they ended up just feeling out of touch. More buffoon than Socrates gadflies. <br/> <br/>Still, this book got three stars because it was entertaing enough to make me keep reading. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/590650?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>