Jitterbug Perfume - Tom Robbins • BookLikes (ISBN:0553403834)

Jitterbug Perfume

by: Tom Robbins (author)

Format: paperback

ISBN: 9780553403831 (0553403834)

Pages no: 342

Edition language: English

Category:

Fantasy, Novels, Humor, Comedy, Literature, Book Club, Adult Fiction, American, Contemporary, Magical Realism

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Sharon E. Cathcart rated it

9 years ago

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I read 40 percent of this eBook, which I think is more than enough to say I gave it a fair shake. I usually enjoy magical realism. This time? Not so much. Life is too short to keep reading books you don't enjoy ... unless they are a school assignment, in which case "suck it up, buttercup." That does...

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jwilley44 rated it

11 years ago

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I read this soon after I met (he signed my book after a talk he gave) Tom Robbins, so it's possible I was biased towards this book. But I don't think so. Uplifting, weird, funny, and beautifully written. Pretty much what you expect from the author.

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kennethjmcginnis rated it

11 years ago

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Lisa (Harmony) rated it

11 years ago

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The book begins: The beet is the most intense of vegetables. It riffs off that in a short prologue, "Today's Special" promising a magical, sensuous and sensory-laden book. The prose is lush without being purple. It's full of puns, world play, off-"beet" humor, over-the-top metaphors, raunchy sexuali...

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norma rated it

12 years ago

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Favorite Robbins novel!

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