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Liked It “One of the most relevent books written in the post "Greed is Good" 80's for the 21st century.” see full review » see other reviews » |
Didn’t Like It“One of my friends told me to read this because he thought I would relate to the women(just because we are both asian) in this book. This was definately hard for me to read at first. Too much chaos I guess I couldn't really follow, I was bored! But as the story came to an end and I was enjoying...” see full review » see other reviews » |
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bonnie l wrote this review 10 days ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“One of my friends told me to read this because he thought I would relate to the women(just because we are both asian) in this book. This was definately hard for me to read at first. Too much chaos I guess I couldn't really follow, I was bored! But as the story came to an end and I was enjoying the last few chapters, the book just ended on me. WTF???? How in the world did they get to Timbuktu? ”
Rosanna s wrote this review Friday, August 7 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“My least favorite Tom Robbins book, along with "Skinny Legs and All".”
Brian H wrote this review Sunday, August 2 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“One of the most relevent books written in the post "Greed is Good" 80's for the 21st century.”
Genevieve C wrote this review Monday, July 20 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Epic tale of a beleaguered investment counselor trying to cope with what she's done to her clients by failing to predict a massive economic downturn that's drowned all their portfolios. This leads the protagonist on a bizarre quest for meaning and purpose in her life, led by someone who bailed out of the finance field to commune with the frog and fish spirits in Timbuktu. Loopy, entertaining and oddly believable story.”
Eileen M wrote this review Friday, June 5 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Decent storyline but ends too abruptly. Seems like Robbins just lost interest toward the end. Got his rants in and then neglected that there was the making for a decent story there. Too bad.”
Thomas G wrote this review Friday, May 29 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“Amazing!”
Chala R wrote this review Monday, May 4 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Tom Robbins writes crazy novels and this one is no different. I won't give anything away, but get ready for impressionistic-loving Native Americans, ancient Japanese imperial enema nozzles and a monkey jewel thief.
Scott C wrote this review Sunday, April 19 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
This is not a joke.”
“An enjoyable Robbins novel with its effusions of gloriously unconfined language. But written entirely in second person, I guess just to prove that it could be done. But the problem is that the second person (You think this, You feel that, You do certain things) constantly insist that the reader identify completely with the viewpoint character and obey directions from the author. This is problematic when you have a male author telling a female character what she feels in sexual situations, and insisting that a male reader completely identify with this female character who is acting out the fantasies of a male author. Weird.
Larry McC wrote this review Tuesday, March 17 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
It took more than half of the book before I got accustomed enough to the style that I stopped being distracted by such thoughts and just enjoyed the story. After that, it was lots of fun.”
