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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/118049.Skinny_Legs_and_All?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Skinny Legs and All" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1171745901m/118049.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/118049.Skinny_Legs_and_All?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Skinny Legs and All</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/3642783?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 4 of 5 stars<br/>I started this book at least three times. Tom Robbins is one of my favorie authors, and this was his only novel I hadn't read. However, each of the times I started it I found myself becoming very disappointed. At the beginning it was too weird, or trying to be too cute, even for Tom Robbins. Ellen Cherry and Boomer driving across country in a turkey. A talking and walking spoon, dirty sock and can of beans. It was too much. I couldn't take it seriously. He was trying to be too 'Tom Robbins like' or something. <br/> <br/>But when I made a decision to finally plow through all of this beginning crap I fell in love, and now this is my favorite Tom Robbins novel. All the silly and crazy things at the beginning, like the turkey and dirty sock, etc., fall into place, and make sense soon enough. When it all started to come together it definitely restored my faith in Robbins, and made me love him even more. He pulls out all the stops in this book. And though it was published in 1990, it's still feels so very new and very relevant now. Of course, the problems in the Middle East have only gotten worse. <br/> <br/> <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/172674?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>