Another Roadside Attraction
This book is another attraction in Tom Robbins’ impressive line of books. Tom is far and away my favorite fiction author; and although this isn’t my favorite book of his, its worth a read. It started off slow, but once the plot got going I couldn’t put it down. “Just one more chapter, then I’ll go to bed.” Yeah right!
Here’s the synopsis: A loin-cloth-wearing magician, a sexy, enlightened debutante-turned-gypsy, a hemorrhoidal scientist/author, a rogue athlete/drug dealer, and a roadside hotdog-serving zoo are the characters and participants in a caper that might have changed the world, but ended up vanishing in a puff of light. How’s that for a summary?! This book made me want to be a hippy and eat mushrooms. In fact, I made mushrooms for dinner last night! Let me leave you with some notable quotes that found nestled in the pages:
“The principal difference between adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape. (The narrower the margin, the greater the adventure”
“Romanticism and science are good for each other. The scientist keeps the romantic honest and the romantic keeps the scientist human.”
“The world is perpetually changing. It doesn’t do much else but change… Why do you want to stick your nose into it?”
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