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- From: gary@buxhed.enet.dec.com
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.tom-robbins
- Subject: Re: Looking for recommendations
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.134724.23771@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 13:47:24 GMT
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- Well seeing as everyone seems to be jumping in with their
- favourite Robbins I thought I would too. Besides this group
- doesn't get nearly enough traffic.
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- The first book of his I read was 'Still Life...', this is
- still my favourite book of his. Then it was on to 'Jitterbug',
- a great read but it laked the sparkle of 'Still Life...'.
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- After a bit of a break I read 'Skinny Legs and all' another
- fine read, about on par with 'Jitterbug' but still laking
- the certain whatever... Finally I read 'Even Cowgirls...',
- this almost topped the list as my favourite but didn't quite
- make it, definately second though.
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- I should proboably add that I don't think Robbins could write
- a book I wouldn't enjoy to some extent. The way he writes
- makes me laugh, entertains me, even if sometimes the actual
- plot is a bit of a let down.
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- On the Non-Robbins thread I've started reading some Vonnegut.
- 'Slaughterhouse Five' was mildly entertaining, enjoyable but
- nothing startling. 'Breakfast of Champions' was an absolute
- peach of a book, I finished it and read it again a couple of
- weeks later, lovely.
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- All my own opinion of course,
- Gary
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