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  • Super User

All by Tom Robbins. Not recommended for those easily offended.

Another Roadside Attraction (1971)

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1976)

Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)

Jitterbug Perfume (1984)

Skinny Legs and All (1990)

Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas (1994)

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates (2000)

Villa Incognito (2003)

A liitle satire, a little social commentary, a little slapstick, and a lot out of whack. You will have no idea, at all, where any of them are going, but it's a fun ride. I've highlighted my favorites. "Cowgirls" is considered by many to be his best.

Enjoy.

GK

  • Super User

Great Reads; then as the snow is getting deeper for my younger Northern Brothers a couple of more you may want to try

Somtimes a Great Notion Ken Kesey

On the Road; Kerouac ( Under 18, make sure your folks know)

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas:thompson( same warning as above!)

Trout Fishing in America: Brautigan

Cat's Cradle,Slaughterhouse 5,God Bless you Mr.Rosewater and

Breakfast of Champions; Vonergut

that should keep you til iceout 8-)

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Great Reads; then as the snow is getting deeper for my younger Northern Brothers a couple of mor you may want to try

Somtimes a Great Notion Ken Kesey

On the Road; Kerouac ( Under 18, make sure your folks know)

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas:thompson( same warning as above!)

Trout Fishing in America: Brautigan

Cat's Cradle,Slaughterhouse 5,God Bless you Mr.Rosewater and

Breakfast of Champions; Vonergut

that should keep you til iceout 8-)

Good list, Dom. Now, what the heck is a chrono-synclastic infundibulum?

  • Super User

That's from the Sirens of Titan, also by Vonergut

I am afraid my reading habits have lead to my insanity

Whats ICE NINE?

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  • Super User

Ice nine is a form of water, solid at room temperature. From Cat's Cradle.

What's a granfaloon?

  • Super User

It's been awhile; Granfalloons were a bunch of basically Mooks, who thought they carried the message of Bookon ( spelling) but actually were of no real importance. I belive they were native to San Lorenzo,, IS THAT CLOSE/ Who were the other gourp , the Imporant Mooks?,,,,, might be time for me to read this not under the influence :o

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It's been awhile; Granfalloons were a bunch of basically Mooks, who thought they carried the message of Bookon ( spelling) but actually were of no real importance. I belive they were native to San Lorenzo,, IS THAT CLOSE/ Who were the other gourp , the Imporant Mooks?,,,,, might be time for me to read this not under the influence :o

close enough for government work.

you have me stumped about the "important" mooks.

Now, i'll stump you. Who was Philboyd Studge?

  • Super User

Philboyd Studge=Kilgore Trout=Billy Pilgrim, all Vonergut .

If I remeber corecctly , he kind of " releases" them all in Breakfast of Champions. which he wrote in a terrible depression.

  • Super User

Vonnegut is a great author. Hocus Pocus is a good read as well...most of his stuff is intersting

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