Title: Less IS more
Product review: You ever meet someone at a party who seems to be telling you everything he knows? Such a person winds up coming off as not knowing much.Tom Robbins knows much, but feels the need to type every nano-thought he has. If anyone has a moustache, you can be sure that an essay on lip hair isn't far off. If he stares out a window, a meditation on windows is just around the corner.If comedy is all about timing, Robbins is the comedian who barrages his audience, assaulting them. It's like a heavy metal guitar solo. Lots of notes, played fast, but hardly musical.I dug "Roadside," "Jitterbug," "Woodpecker," et all... years ago. Now, Robbins' writing reads like the novel Frasier Crane would write.It's too bad, because I really had good memories of those earlier books.I won't revisit them, however, for I suspect that the style I enjoyed then might prove irritating now.
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