Wild Ducks Flying Backward
by Tom Robbins
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Author: Tom RobbinsEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-08-29
ISBN: 0553383531
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Bantam
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Book Review: "The whirling dervish lit hippie of Seattle"
Summary: 5 Stars
Tom Robbins is a madman. His passionate love affair with language is surpassed only by his compassion for thoroughly mobile drive by turkeys, beet scented waitresses, chatty defensive sticks, wedding cake flavored pyramids, dynamite flavored woodpeckers, water logged socks, cantankerous and injured transgendered cans o' beans, and of course the ORIGINAL bombastic balloon boy sweet Haysoos.
Tom Robbins is THEE shoehorn defibrillator of writerz; YES that is writerZ with a captial Z. His electrifying way with words wedges itself between your skull and that gelatinous gray sludge therein and Za za za ZAPS your brain into a mind expanding revery that no flip-the-bird-at-sobriety-stimulants, ill eagle or otherwise, could ever possibly compete with much less top.
Don't take my words for it...take Toms:
"I want to travel on a train that smells like snowflakes.
I want to sip in cafes that smell like comets.
Under the pressure of my step, I want the streets to emit the precise odor of a diamond necklace.
I want the newspapers I read to smell like the violins left in pawnshops by weeping hobos on Christmas Eve.
I want to carry luggage that reeks of the neurons in Einstein's brain.
I want a city's gases to smell like the golden belly hairs of the gods.
And when I gaze at a televised picture of the moon, I want to detect, from a distance of 239,000 miles, the aroma of fresh mozzarella."
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