Jen's review
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates
by Tom Robbins
Jen's review
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates by Tom Robbins
Jen's review
rating:
bookshelves:
comedy,
philosophy
I love Tom Robbins. So, so much. The first one I ever read is still my favorite - Jitterbug Perfume - but really, I've never read one that I didn't like at all. My least favorite is Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas, but even that one is pretty good until the very end. Anyway, so about this book. I liked it a lot. Robbins enjoys pushing boundaries, and this book is no different. Our hero is a CIA agent named Switters (who hates guns but won't give up his Berretta, who is a high-level computer hacker but hates the internet, who is generally a study in contradictions - aren't we all). Through a misadventure (or constructive events?) in South America, Switters loses some degree of freedom of mobility and is launched on ridiculous series of events that somehow get him back to exactly where he needs to be. Some of Robbins favorite themes surface, including religion, sex and taboo. I had a good time reading it - but it's not for the squeamish, because some of the taboos the hero and his ...more
