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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/799536.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/1178485322m/799536.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/799536.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/6342090?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 3 of 5 stars<br/>Either Tom Robbins is losing it, or I've come a long way in the last ten years. Probably a bit of both. Robbins still has a way with colorful metaphors and characters, but it seems old hat after eight novels. In my late teens I couldn't get enough TR; reading, highlighting and dogearing my way through each, grinning as I went. I had a compulsive need to start each book over again as soon as it was finished. Robbins' journey towards mediocrity started with Fierce Invalids, and continues to worsen with Villa Incognito. It took me nearly four years after publication to finally care enough to read Villa. If he publishes again, I fear I may never bother to read it at all. boo <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/387825?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>