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Summary: Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
Review: Tom Robbins' weekend adventure of a morally decrepit stock-broker on the verge of losing everything. The fast-paced ride laces whacked-out characters and their adventures with moments of head-scratching profundity and brilliant clarity. One of the most interesting and fun to read books written in the past 50 years
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Summary: entertaining despite use of 2nd person narration
Review: I suppose Tom Robbins used the 2nd person voice just to prove it could be done outside of the "Choose Your Own Adventure" genre. Despite that, I found it an enjoyable book, though not quite so good as "Still Life with Woodpecker" or "Skinny Legs and All."
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Summary: Hold On Tight...A Robbins ride is not for the meek at heart!
Review: 10 - Yes TEN - Tom Robbins raises the fiction bar to a new high...
Reading any Tom Robbins novel is like watching an aikido master throw an opponent.....EVERYTHING LOOKS SO EASY, yet when you look back on the experience you wonder how the hell it happened.A frustrated stock broker, an overweight, neurotic medium, sirius (the dog star), cancer, alternative medicine, and the rapidly decreasing number of the eatrh's frogs are all key components to this epic romp addressing the "meaning of life".... Newcomers are urged to attend, but be prepared; once you have tasted the fruit of Robbins' tree all other fiction seems mundane...
By the way, get ready to enjoy the finest simile available in the English language; although a master of all of the writers' arts, Robbins' black-belt degree in simile is the highest yet attained.
HOLD ON AND ENJOY
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Summary: Weird, unusual and a flair of creativity
Review: A ridiculous, yet appealing, psuedo-mystery set in the almost fast-paced life of big money deals. "Frog pajamas" is an interesting romp through philosophical semi-quandries, and absolutely creative plot twists. The story isn't all that amazing, and the character's are just too over the top. Unfortunately the most enjoyable one, the overly-endowned Q-Jo, spends half the book missing. What truly kept me interested was Robbin's flair and style. His delivery is quick and satiric, showing irreverency to everyone. And his particular delivery is a fun trip itself: You, the reader, are also You, the not so ethically honest female stock broker, caught amongst the worst professional nightmare of your life, newly discovered sexual passion, your well engrained desire for material items and the opportunity to make a self-probing journey of a lifetime
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Summary: Wow.....!!!
Review: I just finished "half asleep....." and all I can say is WOW....Thoughtful, provacative, soul inspiring literature. A thinking individual's leisure fiction.....loved it...!!!!!
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Summary: chocolate for the fiction-reader's brain
Review: I love Tom Robbins! When I first read Cowgirls, it struck me as lip-smackingly profound and funny. A cruddy movie version with the awful Uma has not dimmed my admiration for Mr. Robbins. OK, so the plot of Frog Pajamas stretches credulity, characters are over the top, but the langauge is wonderful, the metaphors are golden, the puns are perfect, and the books are brain candy for the thinking person who reads for enjoyment, not necessarily for education. Keep them coming, thick and fast
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Summary: Robbins' worst
Review: I'm sorry, but I'm a big Tom Robbins fan and this book was just terrible. After all the hilarious religious commentary in his other books, it just seemed silly.
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Summary: See you in Timbuktu
Review: Having read the mostly negative reviews for HALF ASLEEP, I read all of Tom Robbins' other novels before getting around to this one. People say that it's boring, that the narrative style is anoying, that the message is obvious or dissapointing.
This is one of my favorites, presently. At the least, it's the Robbins novel that I think about most often. Gwen Matti starts off as a fairly annoying character, but she becomes much more compelling as the story progresses, largely because of Larry Diamond, who is great. He'd probably getting along well with JITTERBUG PERFUME's Wiggs Dannyboy or STILL LIFE's Bernard Mickey Wrangle.
Plus, there's a lot of fascinating stuff in here about the Nommo, the Sirius system and Timbuktu.
If you like Tom Robbins, you'll like this.
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Summary: Bizarre fun that goes nowhere
Review: I enjoyed this crazy story while it lasted but felt unsatisfied when it was all over. Just stange in the end, although I did enjoy the ride most of the time.
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Summary: Takes some getting used to...
Review: Well, this book took almost 100 pages until I started being able to adjust to its groove. It's unlike ANYTHING I have ever read. Individually almost each of Tom Robbins sentences is a work of art, so fully wonderful and well crafted. I liked that part right off, but was REALLY having trouble with the almost surreal and convoluted story. However, once I meshed with the book's stride, i took off running. I am loving this. Also, the fact that it is set in Seattle is great fun, reading about my hometown.
This was such a trip to read. I was left, at the end, satisfied, but it took a long time to get there. I've heard that this is more "out there" than many of Robbins' books, so maybe not the best way to be introduced to him, but his style is wonderful. I'm glad I read it.
While flipping through it once last time, I am compelled to copy out my favorite sentence, found on page 121. "The expectant pause is so large that were it a house, Christ and all twelve disciples could live there, although Judas Iscariot would probably have to sleep on the sun porch." *smile*
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