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Even Cowgirls Get the Blues Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
by Tom Robbins

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recommended for: Everyone- just to prove my point

Tim Robbins is an ASS. He is a creative literary genius and he throws it in your face all throughout this book. You will walk away from this novel not only because it is gross, (or because you have pieces of Tim Robbin's genius on your face), but also because you wont be able to figure out why someone so apparently gifted would write about this trivial crap. It will stump you for days, and on the fifth day you will realize that TR is just what he appears to be...a gifted and obscenely talented ASS. The juxtaposition of graphic gross-yam pudding-while-balling with-old-chinese-men-sex and the brilliant and enlightened way in which TR philosophizes is maddening. Its worth reading- its entertaining at least. The basic plot is bullshit...buuuuut read between the lines. Snort between the lines if you need to. Its the only way to "get it." Of course, if you really love goats and metaphors about dirty greek deities and non-stop phallic references and explicit but pseudo-lesbianism, y...more

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message 1: by Calafia
07/19/2007 10:25PM

135485 You should be my friend. I agree with you wholeheartedly, and am so glad to see I'm not the only one who doesn't fall down and worship the Robbins.

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message 2: by emily
01/03/2008 08:03AM

63074 We should be friends. Lets do it!
I love Lord of the Flies. I heart Ralph.
I dont know why, maybe I think I am him.
(Actually thats exactly why I love him)
(Top secret)


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message 3: by LooseLips (last edited 01/16/2008 02:52PM)
01/16/2008 02:51PM

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message 4: by Meredyth
01/16/2008 03:19PM

126196 Wow! I didn't realize Tim Robbins was writing now! I loved the Shawshank Redemption. Did he write that too?

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message 5: by LooseLips
01/16/2008 07:43PM

662234 scripts count!

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