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Re: Over-The-Rhine Digest V3 #674

Jitterbug Perfume was always my favourite - until Fierce Invalids.  I 
thought that was absolutely stunning!  The character of Switters is 
extremely entertaining, as are almost all the adjunct characters.  Frog 
Pyjamas was fun but not as good as some of the others.

I've decided that what makes Robbins so wonderful is his love of James 
Joyce.  The Wake features heavily in Fierce Invalids and there's that 
wonderful story in Still Life of the Buddhists using it as a blueprint for a 
Christian funeral.  Boy I'd like a funeral like that!

<br><br><br>Degs
'Wherever Jesus went there was a revolution;
wherever I go people serve tea"
                           (Anthony de Mello)



>From: "rainy day jane" <waytogojane at hotmail_com>
>Reply-To: "rainy day jane" <waytogojane at hotmail_com>
>To: Over-the-Rhine at ActWin_com
>Subject: Re: Over-The-Rhine Digest V3 #674
>Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 00:17:45 -0400
>
>>Currently catching up on some old Tom Robbins titles I'd missed along the
>>way.  Just started Still Life with Woodpecker.
>
>oh, excitement! i have now read that book three times, and every time i 
>read
>it...new things pop out that i never noticed before, and i think this third
>reading deemed that one my favourite.
>
>although "jitterbug perfume" is a pretty darn gorgeous book...
>
>i killed time with a butcher knife this morning by curling up in the big
>comfy chair at barnes & noble with the biggest flavoured latté they served
>and "fierce invalids home from hot climates", the newest robbins effort. so
>far, it's pretty good...better than "frog pajamas". (IMHO)
>
>i was hoping to get a glimpse of the newest amy tan book (title is 
>something
>about bones, or a bone-seller or something) but there were no copies. i
>didn't like her last one (hundred secret senses)...so i'm a bit nervous.
>
>jillian.
>like a feather it will be.
>
>
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