Jitterbug Perfume

by Tom Robbins

Jitterbug Perfume is an epic. which is to say, it begins in the forests of ancient Bohemia and doesn't conclude until nine o'clock tonight [Paris time]. It is a saga, as well. A saga must have a hero, and the hero of this one is a janitor with a missing bottle. The bottle is blue, very, very old, and embossed with the image of a goat-horned god. If the liquid in the bottle is actually... (read more)

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Jody H
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One of my favourites that I really need to reread!

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  • Rated 1 stars

An ode to middle age, June 25, 2008


I was not as impressed with this book as I have been with his earlier works. Examining his bibliography on a time-line, with the exception of "Skinny Legs And All" (and I'd bet money he'd written it or at least had a good outline somewhat before its published date), everything from Jitterbug Perfume to the most recent excrescence seems to be the masturbatory fantasy of an increasingly bizarre and pitiable personality attempting...

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  • kkaattee

    kkaattee said:

    Read this book. Tom Robbins is crazy, philisophical, and incredibally insightful. I could teach a class for the rest of my life...on this book.

    posted Saturday, May 3 2008
  • Hahtoolah

    hahtoolah said:

    I had never hear of this book before, but the title is certainly intriguing.

    posted Tuesday, October 30 2007
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