Even Cowgirls Get the Blues | 
|  | | | Title: | Even Cowgirls Get the Blues | | Author: | Tom Robbins | | Publisher: | Bantam | | Type: | Book / Paperback | | Publication Date: | 01 April, 1990 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 055334949X / 9780553349498 | | List Price: | $14.00 | | You Save: | $2.80 | | Amazon Price: | $11.20 | |
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Starring Sissy Hanshaw--flawlessly beautiful, almost. A small-town girl with big-time dreams and a quirk to match--hitchhiking her way into your heart, your hopes, and your sleeping bags...
Featuring Bonanza Jellybean and the smooth-riding cowgirls of Rubber Rose Ranch. Chink, lascivious guru of yams and yang. Julian, Mohawk by birth; asthmatic esthete and husband by disposition. Dr. Robbins, preventive psychiatrist and reality instructor...
Follow Sissy's amazing odyssey from Virginia to chic Manhattan to the Dakota Badlands, where FBI agents, cowgirls, and ecstatic whooping cranes explode in a deliciously drawn-out climax...
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Customer Reviews:
• My Favorite 26 July, 2008
Tom Robbins is my favorite writer of fiction and this is my favorite of his books. maybe it's cause it's the first one I read but I love the idea of the world's greatest hichhiker having huge thumbs. LMAOs throughout.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A13EXTF3WSLGSU
• Form Over Function 15 May, 2006
The language is beautiful in form. Inspirational is the best way to describe his ability to describe any one moment. The internal mechanisms that move a story from one moment to the next is what was painfully absent. The main driving force of plot was overt sexual tension. Once this aspect had reached its climax early in the novel there was little holding my attention. I put the book down not knowing what became of the Chink or any of the Cowgirls.
Is literature supposed to have a point or not? There are works of art that are beauty in of themselves, and only for themselves, and represent a voice that was never heard of before. Then there are pieces of art and literature whose point is to edify through illustration, explanation or even catharis. This work was absent of any meaningful satire that I could discern. Robbin's strength here was in his unique way of illustrating with words.
I believe an earlier reviewer used the words "literary masturbation." Perfect discription.
Sadly, this was my first exposure to T. Robbins. Doubt if I will try again any time soon. I do get Cinemax afterall.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A11M8RJ3OVGT4X
• Awful 31 July, 2008
I read this book on the recommendation of a friend whose taste in books is usually very similar to mine. When I gave her this book back, I was tempted to punch her in the face.
You can literally skip chapters and when you pick back up you will have missed nothing. There are at least 30 pages dedicated to explaining how an ancient indian tribe kept track of time. WHY? That literally has absolutely nothing to do with the book. Tim Robbins would start on a long, overly detailed, often nonsensical description of something, and I'd start skipping pages, only to find that 5, 6, or even 20 pages later when I tried to pick back up, he was still describing the same thing.
I tried to get through it, but this is literally the only book I have ever been unable to finish.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A2OQI2NR6YSJY5
• On And On And On And On 09 September, 2006
I got this book because it was highly recommended by a college professor. I thought that it was entirely too wordy. I would skip through paragraphs because it was just too much. I thought the story plot was interesting and could have been fun to read, but Tom Robbins came off sounding pretentious because of his overuse of words. It could have been much better.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A2XST9IVVHIROQ
• Not Free Sf Reader 03 September, 2007
This is more of Robbins' whacky silliness, with a woman touring all over the place to find someone compatible and display her jeans to best advantage.
She ends up encountering other odd characters in her quest to find out where she fits in, and what this shagging thing is all about.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1X8VZWTOG8IS6
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