Another Roadside Attraction | 
|  | | | Title: | Another Roadside Attraction | | Author: | Tom Robbins | | Publisher: | Bantam | | Type: | Book / Paperback | | Publication Date: | 01 April, 1990 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0553349481 / 9780553349481 | | List Price: | $14.00 | | You Save: | $2.80 | | Amazon Price: | $11.20 | |
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What if the Second Coming didn't quite come off as advertised? What if "the Corpse" on display in that funky roadside zoo is really who they say it is--what does that portent for the future of western civilization? And what if a young clairvoyant named Amanda reestablishes the flea circus as popular entertainment and fertility worship as the principal religious form of our high-tech age? Another Roadside Attraction answers those questions and a lot more. It tells us, for example, what the sixties were truly all about, not by reporting on the psychedelic decade but by recreating it, from the inside out. In the process, this stunningly original seriocomic thriller eating a literary hotdog and eroding the borders of the mind.
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It's clear that when Robbins sits down to write, he has one thing on his mind: having himself some fun. I read Another Roadside Attraction, years ago, then immediately went back to the beginning of the book and read it again. Robbins holds nothing back in this, his first novel. It's a perfect introduction to the Robbins oeuvre of oddness.
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Customer Reviews:
• My First And Last Attempt At Tom Robbins 18 May, 2008
This book came highly recommended to me by several friends, so I decided to give it a try. I suffered through about forty pages before I finally had to quit. I was on a road trip at the time, spending two months camping with no TV, no computer, and nothing to do but read, and even in that situation I couldn't make myself continue. The writing is hippy gibberish of the most trite variety. Having done a fair share of drugs myself, I know genuine nonsense when I hear it, and the drug-induced nonsense in this book was decidedly of the forced, artificial variety. Also, the characters had no depth at all. All of them seemed to be good at everything - John Paul Ziller is great with women AND he's a drumming prodigy AND he's an influential artist AND he's travelled to exotic parts of the world AND he had the potential to be a great athlete. Amanda is a beautiful love queen AND she has psychic powers AND she's a confident, independant woman AND she's the leader of a gypsy caravan AND she's sensitive enough to love butterflies. Real people have flaws... there is nothing interesting to me about characters who are the best at everything they do. I have hitchhiked across the country, faced off against riot cops, lived in a truck, and done psychadelic drugs while camping in the woods so NOBODY can tell me that I don't like this book because I'm too square... it's just bad writing with shallow characters.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A3KOOTRQ6G7IJW
• First Tom Robbins Book 09 August, 2008
This was the first book of his i read. I was in high school and some weird guy gave it to me and told me i'd love it. Come to find out he is my favorite writer still to this day. Another Roadside Attraction as funny as all roadside attractions are.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1X7J0PV4F7YOO
• Items Not Received 05 May, 2008
Never did receive this item, or other book in order, and my efforts to notify you were not responded to.
although postal service tracking claims to have delivered items, post office says they never received them.
will think twice before using amazon in the future
- Reviewed by customer ID: A2XOQ7OZLRLJGA
• Brilliant 25 July, 2008
I love this book, the character's are very unique, writting style is beautiful, very kooky and light-hearted yet thought-provoking at times.
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• Ehhh... 18 August, 2008
This is a book of oddities. Very creative and I loved the musical references it had in it. I loved Amanda...how could you not? It is a book about freedom and the death of the church. If you are a Christian with questions about what you believe you will find this book intriguing to say the least. It is very thought provoking. Some of the problems with the book are that it takes forever to get into the plot, he writes it as a historical document which is interesting but the author of the novel(not Tom Robbins) likes to state that it is not a report to keep the readers attention but to state the facts....I wish the facts were more interesting at times! It felt like Robbins was so close to really making it interesting but just didn't. The ending was interesting but I thought for sure due to the dull plot of the book the ending would be much more big and fantastic but like I said it is about facts and not to keep the readers attention which I guess is written like that to make it seem more real which isn't a terrible thing. But one thing to keep in mind is no matter how boring the plot might be at times there are still things to keep you going through it that get your mind going. If it were not for those parts I might have thrown this book away.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A2KA7OLGPJNB3U
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