Read all of Tom Robbins's books

so i just finished Still Life with Woodpecker, the first book of his i’ve aquired. I honestly can say i can’t wait to get another one, there are so many to choose from! I actually get excited thinking about it ha.

Still Life with Woodpecker
Jitterbug Perfume
Villa Incognito
Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
Skinny Legs and All
.............I’ve only read those above so far….....

just picked up “even cowgirls get the blues” from the library…

so it’s a start.

as soon as finals are done, bam, i’m going straight down the line in chronological order; forget what i’ve already read, cause it’s been too long. another roadside attraction, on through. yee haw!

He’s the first author I did.

I dig him because he’s so amazingly beautifully absurd. And a horny devil.

I associate with his fixation on drugs and anal sex and his stubborn refusal to grow up.

I love Tom Robbins. He speaks what is in me and provides for me what life does not. I saw this challenge as I was scouting new places to read about Robbins on the internet but had already read everything he has written excepting some early art and music critiques.

I had no choice, really. I first read “Still Life with Woodpecker” and, I must admit, it took me several, perhaps five, tries to get through it. I liken it now to being stuck in the mud and mire of my life and his book trying to propel me forward but I quit before I could fully climb out. Finally, I got past some point where it clicked and my senses seemed to vibrate like a dowzing rod honing in on subterranean water.

I finished “Still Life…” and was intrigued knowing I had to read more. But nothing I had experienced, not even the experience of having my mind blown open by the writing in “Still Life…” had prepared me for what I read next. I stepped back to Robbins’ first for my second and fell in love with “Another Roadside Attraction” and, of course, Amanda and, if I am being completely honest, John Paul Ziller.

After finishing ”...Roadside…” I devoured the rest as fast as my library could support me, reading “Jitterbug Perfume”, “Skinny Legs and All”, “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues” and “Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas” in, as I remember it, that order.

I was, at that point, a junkie and was waiting at the bookstore when “Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates”, “Villa Incognito” and “Wild Ducks Flying Backward” came out.

When Robbins speaks to you as he has spoken to me it is nearly impossible to describe to others – my words fail me. I believe only he could put words to how I feel about his writing and that is circular logic if I’ve ever heard it.

Robbins is funny (he makes me laugh out loud), he is sexy, he is wise – but, mostly, he makes me think. God, how he makes me think.

I hope, fervently, that what I have written here, as pale as it is compared to the experience itself, will make you want to read Mr. Robbins. He is a treasure.

(fierce invalids) but it’s large print, which does my head in. may have to go to a bookstore

I’ve read Skinny Legs and All (it changed my life), Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas (not as great but written in 2nd person; that was interesting) and I just finished Villa Incognito. Robbins’ voice is so strong and his books so sexy. I’m excited to finish this challenge so I can start rereading!!

it’s on my bookshelf, tbr. I think the only other ones I haven’t read are Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates and Wild Ducks Flying Backwards.