Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
by Tom Robbins
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Author: Tom RobbinsEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1995-11-01
ISBN: 0553377876
Number of pages: 400
Publisher: Bantam
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Book Review: Uncommon Robbins, Uncommon genius.
Summary: 5 Stars
I, like many others, have read most of Tom's books and while some of his main characters have been slightly annoying (Still Life with Woodpecker, anyone?), Matti takes the cake. Don't let her character dissuade you from reading the book. Her character is a money-grubbing stockbroker containing no true love or passion for life. She is intended (I believe) to represent the consumer in all of us, albeit the worst parts. She is not supposed to be likable. A likable Matti would have taken away this stories point: how even the most vile, egotistical, greedy person can transform, or should I say be pushed to transform when the stakes are raised high enough. The story begins at the start of a four-day weekend, just after a major stock crash. Matti is in jeopardy of losing her job, she can't even make the payments on her new Porsche, boo-ho! Moreover, the boyfriend that she's been dating because of his giant paycheck has decided to give it to charity. On top of everything, his monkey gets loose (did I mention that this monkey was trained to steal jewelry and that the aforementioned boyfriend has taken it upon himself to convert the monkey to Christianity?) and may be heisting peoples belongings. Craziness!
As always, Tom's writing is spectacular and you'll be learning arcane bits of knowledge on every page. Some of his ideas are crazy, but deep down are not all ideas crazy?
Summary of Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
When the stock market crashes on the Thursday before Easter, you?an ambitious, although ineffectual and not entirely ethical young broker?are convinced that you?re facing the Weekend from Hell. Before the market reopens on Monday, you?re going to have to scramble and scheme to cover your butt, but there?s no way you can anticipate the baffling disappearance of a 300-pound psychic, the fall from grace of a born-again monkey, or the intrusion in your life of a tattooed stranger intent on blowing your mind and most of your fuses. Over these fateful three days, you will be forced to confront everything from mysterious African rituals to legendary amphibians, from tarot-card bombshells to street violence, from your own sexuality to outer space. This is, after all, a Tom Robbins novel?and the author has never been in finer form.Literary Books
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