Jitterbug Perfume | Tom Robbins

Jitterbug Perfume | Tom Robbins | A great holiday read!

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Jitterbug Perfume

	Jitterbug Perfume Tom Robbins Bantam, 1990 - 352 pages average customer review:based on 177 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Jitterbug Perfume is an epic. which is to say, it begins in the forests of ancient Bohemia and doesn't conclude until nine o'clock tonight [Paris time]. It is a saga, as well. A saga must have a hero, and the hero of this one is a janitor with a missing bottle. The bottle is blue, very, very old, and embossed with the image of a goat-horned god. If the liquid in the bottle is actually is the secret essence of the universe, as some folks seem to think, it had better be discovered soon becaused it is leaking and there is only a drop of two left.

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A wild ride...

What do beets, the ancient god Pan, an Iron Age Germanic tribal chieftain,a low caste Indian girl from the Middle Ages,a waitress in a Mexican restaurant, two rival "scent houses" (one in Paris and the other in New Orleans) an ancient group of ascetic monks called the Bandaloop and the quest for immortality have in common? They are all major elements in a rollicking tale by the master of weird(and highly enjoyable) fiction, Tom Robbins. One of the most original and fascinating books I've ever read , couldn't put it down. Highly recommended.

A great holiday read!

This book moves through time from the ancient to the modern, and follows the story of an ancient couple that has learned how to live as long as they choose.

When I first started reading it, I was questioning if it really was my kind of book. I'm glad I stuck with it! Robbins has this incredible writing style that combines well written prose with clever similes and metaphors. Just like David Letterman, he will be writing something serious and out of the blue he'll throw in something that adds a decidedly comedic mood. So it's not an easy read, but extremely enjoyable.

On of the most refreshing things about the book is the way that Robbins will be writing about ancient times, and driving his points home with modern and humorous images. He was "shaking like the shuttle in an overachiever's loom" or "The Middle Ages hangs over history's belt like a beer belly." I don't know if everybody would appreciate this kind of writing, but I loved it. I'd recommend this book to anybody.

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Favorite Tom Robbins book

Jitterbug Perfume is epic, in that it spans thousands of years of mortal life, and about an hour and a half of the after life. This is my favorite Tom Robbins book. Those familiar with his writing style know that he can get a bit...wordy. His forays into the cosmic realms can be a little long winded, but this book seems to incorporate his philosophy into a readable and well told story. That it takes place over such a span of time and various locations, and the characters include a deity, a king, a voodoo chemist and a waitress all wrapped up in a cohesive and entrancing story is no small feat. If you read only one Tom Robbins book in your life this should be the one. Other works of his seem a little more experimental as far as writing style and big picture world view, but Jitterbug Perfume (IMHO) is his masterpiece.

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