Skinny Legs and All
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The Pequod Review:
Tom Robbins’s fifth novel is his most picaresque, with a convoluted plot involving the Arab-Israeli conflict, Christian fundamentalism, postmodern art, and belly-dancing. But his prose has reached new lows:
Dip a slice of bread in batter. That's September: yellow, gold, soft and sticky. Fry the bread. Now you have October: chewier, drier, streaked with browns. The day in question fell somewhere in the middle of the french toast process.
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As soon as she had replaced the vibrator in her underwear drawer, the panties ceased their girlish gossiping and began to chirp, “Who? Who? Who?” Whose name had she called aloud when she straddled the white pony of orgasm?
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Summer had come to sit on New York's face.
For serious fans only.