Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates | TOM ROBBINS

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates | TOM ROBBINS | Share the Wealth

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	Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates TOM ROBBINS Bantam, 2001 - 480 pages average customer review:based on 210 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

"Tom Robbins has a grasp on things that dazzles the brain and he's also a world-class storyteller."
--Thomas Pynchon

In Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates, his seventh and biggest novel, the wise, witty, always gutsy Tom Robbins brings onstage the most complex and compelling character he has ever created.

Switters is a contradiction for all seasons: an anarchist who works for the government, a pacifist who carries a gun, a vegetarian who sops up ham gravy, a cyberwhiz who hates computers, a robust bon vivant who can be as squeamish as any fop, a man who, though obsessed with the preservation of innocence, is aching to deflower his high-school-age stepsister (only to become equally enamored of a nun ten years his senior).

Yet there is nothing remotely wishy-washy about Switters. He doesn't merely pack a pistol. He is a pistol.

And as we dog Switters's strangely elevated heels across four continents, in and out of love and danger, Robbins explores, challenges, mocks, and celebrates virtually every major aspect of our mercurial era.

As many readers well know, to describe a Tom Robbins plot does not begin to describe a Tom Robbins novel. Moreover, the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author, with his love of language, nuance, and surprise, is as opposed to story summations as J.D. Salinger. It is revealing, however, to learn what things Robbins lists as having influenced the writing of Fierce Invalids:

"This book was inspired by an entry from Bruce Chatwin's journal, by a CIA agent I met in Southeast Asia, by the mystery surrounding the lost prophecy of the Virgin of Fatima, by the increasing evidence that the interplay of opposites is the engine that runs the universe, and by embroidered memories of old Terry and the Pirates comic books."

Robbins also has said that throughout the writing of Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates he was guided by the advice of Julia Child: "Learn to handle hot things. Keep your knives sharp. Above all, have a good time."

Perhaps that is why he has managed to write a provocative, rascally novel that takes no prisoners--and yet is upbeat, romantic, meaningful, adventurous, edifying, and fun.

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The Secret's in the Sauce.

Tom Robbins paints so vivid a picture that all other books feel like stick-figures in comparison. It's like every word has been painstakingly chosen, buffed and waxed, and then put in a new pair of velvet slippers.

Another way to look at it: whilst reading this book you can't help but see the world a little differently. Even if all your seeing are wicked curve-balls, you are convinced that the next pitch could very well be a watermelon. Possibly rum-soaked.

If the journey is more important than the destination and you feel a wander coming on, this book is for you.

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Share the Wealth

Not everyone is cut out to be a Tom Robbins fan, his style is over the top bizarre. I've been hooked on him from the beginning, but over the top bizarre suits me well.

As with any Tom Robbins book, you have no idea where you are headed, no idea where you have been, no idea of what will happen on the next page, and all you really know is you want to see where the journey takes you.

Switters is a charming character, far from perfect he is delightfully human. There were a few places where I felt things were a little too convienent or contrived, but for the most part I was delighted with each and every plot twist and couldn't wait to see what the next one would be.

To summarize a Robbins plot would be a desecration. A fiesty grandmother, a former nude model turned mother superior, a medicine man with a pyramid shaped head, and a nun namds Domino Thiry... just for starters. His characters are strong and vibrant, and who knows where any of them will end up?

So I will leave you with this: "People of Ze World Relax!"

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THE BEST THAT ROBBINS GETS!!!

I'VE READ ALL OF ROBBINS BOOKS. THIS AND 'JITTERBUG PERFUME' ARE AS GOOD AS IT GETS!
THE ONLY COMPLAINT ANYONE COULD HAVE ABOUT THIS BOOK IS THAT ONE OFTEN NEEDS A DICTIONARY WHILE READING IT. THE PLOT IS FASCINATING AND HILARIOUS.....THIS MAN IS TRULY A TALENTED WRITER.
WOULD RECOMMEND THIS BOOK TO ANYBODY THAT IS NOT EASILY OFFENDED!!!

Imaginatively Incredible

This is the first and, so far, is also the only book of his I've read, and it blows my mind nobody has reviewed it. One of the best books I've ever read. Hilarious, intelligent, thought-provoking, hysterical, creative...
Definitely worth the read and I'll be looking into more of his books soon enough.

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