I never did manage to finish Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. And it seemed like the sort of book I would have liked, when I tried to read it in the seventies, the eighties, and once more somewhere around 2000. My eyes would inevitably glaze over and my mind would wander away all befuddled, as if they were being asked to decipher some dense legalese at the bottom of a contract with Satan.

So I gave up. It wasn't as if my semester grade depended upon finishing PaTC.

Top three favorite writers off the top of my head... John Irving, Tom Robbins, Douglas Adams.

Oh, I have so many... Tom Robbins is one, though. I think it explains a lot about my nature that Robbins is at one end and David Simon's at the other.

Sometimes I reallly like Robbins and sometimes I really don't. Haven't read his latest because I am afraid of not liking it - that Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates really turned me off.

was that before or after Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas? ('cause I loved that one)

After. I also loved Half Asleep etc.

The seasons flopping was the only quote...well, I made it through one of the others with the sense and my wits still intact. But I wasn't sure why. The flopping? I thought the quote as a whole was humourous, and I can see a point to describing the seasons as flopping. Without context I don't know if it was her point, but still. It had more of a reason for existing than the others.

yeah Fierce Invalids is the last one I read too. I recall enjoying it but that it didn't quite scratch my Tom Robbins itch. Now I'm getting a similar sort of satisfaction from Carl Hiaasen.

Huh. I did not like Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas, and never even got around to trying Fierce Invalids.

I liked *both* Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas and Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates, but wasn't crazy about Villa Incognito. I think that's his latest one, right?