- Mass Market Paperback
- Publisher: Bantam Books (1 Nov 1985)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0553251481
- ISBN-13: 978-0553251487
- Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 10.7 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (63 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 692,811 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Tom Robbins has a grasp on things that dazzles the brain and he's also a world-class storyteller." - Thomas Pynchon"
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Reissue of the classic Tom Robbins novel which has been a bestseller since first released.
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26 of 27 people found the following review helpful
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If you've started to take life to seriously, to the point that you might even think yourself mortal, this book is the antedote. Wrapped up in all the fizzing metaphors, sexy romps, historical beetroots and throwaway gags, you'll find Buddhism with a sense of humour, spirituality with human warmth and everything you need to inspire you once conventional religion proves insufficient. And it's a good story too.
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
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This book is like a fairy tale that takes you through 100s of years of history and takes you to many different worlds - from Europe to India to America. With a myriad of entertaining characters whose trials and tribulations you share, it is a good first Tom Robbins book. Its about love and honour and ambition and art .... it has something for everyone to think about. You won't be able to put it down.
28 of 31 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
At its most basic, this book is a celebration of the sense of smell, and all the heart memories attached to scent. It is also a joyous romp, encompassing the rampant eroticism of a greek god suffering the blues, the surprising secret ingredient of the most popular perfume in the world, and the quest for eternal youth through proper breathing techniques and long, hot baths.
A host of some of the most unforgettable entities ever assembled in fiction all find their seemingly different agendas coalescing around a mutual search for personal joy. The forward momentum of the story is as unflagging as a heartbeat and carries the reader along with it, effortlessly.
Robbin's technique of scattering surprising insights like so many sparkling jewels provide the only pause to the pace of the story as the reader is tempted to stop...and think...and learn a little bit more about themselves and what they most desire.
This book was an altogether life-enhancing experience. It is also an excellent guidebook for discovering, or, more to the point, re-discovering the capacity for passion.
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tough going reading this book
I found the characters unengaging in the main, the prose too self congratulatory and self knowing, and the story line boring. Read more
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Seller delivered as promised but i could not get into this one at all! First time i have ever failed to read a book!
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I have very few words to describe this book. Or rather I have roughly a billion, but as I only finished it last night they are all buzzing so freely around my brain that I have no... Read more
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I had read this book a few years ago and really enjoyed it. As for Amazon the purchase was painless and arrived as they said as a gift for a friend.
Published on 22 Nov 2009 by E. Mcgloughlin
my first and absolutely last attempt on Tom R.'s book
OMG ! this is my regrettably wrong pick from the shelf despite all those stars, all those ratings on which i have once put my trust! Read more
Published on 11 Jun 2009 by Hildamei
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An enjoyable romp
I bought this on the back of the frankly stunningly good amazon reviews. On the positive side it is a thoroughly enjoyable romp with some entertaining characters and interestingly... Read more
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