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- From: jesse@picasso.ocis.temple.edu (Jesse Davis)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.tom-robbins
- Subject: Re: Non-Robbins Books to read
- Message-ID: <1993Jan10.034827.1033@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu>
- Date: 10 Jan 93 03:48:27 GMT
- References: <93008.101357MCGLONE@auvm.american.edu>
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- : I received a book for Christmas called "Reality is What You Can Get Away
- : With" by Robert Anton Wilson. It is "an illustrated screenplay" that
- : has a quip by Tom Robbuns on the cover.
- : Has anyone read this yet? I haven't started it yet. I am a little
- : leary, since my mother hasn't had a great track record for her
- : choice of books she gives me.
- If your mother's giving you RA Wilson for Christmas, it surprises me that
- her track record in the past is bad...:)
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- : Can anyone recommend any other books that are Robbins-esque?
- Well, I'll offer some of the obvious suggestions:
- Thomas Pynchon's _The Crying of Lot 49_
- The absolutely, drastically, tragically unknown
- _Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me_ by Richard Farina
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- : Colleen McGlone
- : The American University
- : Internet: MCGLONE@AMERICAN.EDU Bitnet: MCGLONE@AUVM
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