Skinny Legs and All

Skinny Legs and All
by Tom Robbins

Skinny Legs and All
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Author: Tom Robbins
Edition: Paperback
Published: 1995-11-01
ISBN: 0553377884
Number of pages: 432
Publisher: Bantam

Book Reviews of Skinny Legs and All

Book Review: Hard to Follow Even for Robbins' Fans
Summary: 2 Stars

This will be short and not-so-sweet. As a hardcore Tom Robbins fan, I was very disappointed by this novel. Granted that the author's narratives are always a bit far-fetched and twisted--and delightfully so--I found myself wanting to quit this several times, and ultimately I did. I could not relate to the inanimate characters, and Robbins attempts to make too many political and religious statements throughout the narrative. The story just doesn't seem to hang together as in his other novels, and I kept asking myself "When is this plot going to start developing." For me, it was too rambling and yes, downright boring.

Summary of Skinny Legs and All

An Arab and a Jew open a restaurant together across the street from the United Nations....

It sounds like the beginning of an ethnic joke, but it's the axis around which spins this gutsy, fun-loving, and alarmingly provocative novel, in which a bean can philosophizes, a dessert spoon mystifies, a young waitress takes on the New York art world, and a rowdy redneck welder discovers the lost god of Palestine--while the illusions that obscure humanity's view of the true universe fall away, one by one, like Salome's veils.

Skinny Legs and All deals with today's most sensitive issues: race, politics, marriage, art, religion, money, and lust.??It weaves lyrically through what some call the "end days" of our planet.??Refusing to avert its gaze from the horrors of the apocalypse, it also refuses to let the alleged end of the world spoil its mood.??And its mood is defiantly upbeat.

In the gloriously inventive Tom Robbins style, here are characters, phrases, stories, and ideas that dance together on the page, wild and sexy, like Salome herself.??Or was it Jezebel?

An Arab and a Jew open a restaurant together across the street from the United Nations....

It sounds like the beginning of an ethnic joke, but it's the axis around which spins this gutsy, fun-loving, and alarmingly provocative novel, in which a bean can philosophizes, a dessert spoon mystifies, a young waitress takes on the New York art world, and a rowdy redneck welder discovers the lost god of Palestine -- while the illusions that obscure humanity's view of the true universe fall away, one by one, like Salome's veils.

Skinny Legs and All deals with today's most sensitive issues: race, politics, marriage, art, religion, money, and lust. It weaves lyrically through what some call the "end days" of our planet. Refusing to avert its gaze from the horrors of the apocalypse, it also refuses to let the alleged end of the world spoil its mood. And its mood is defiantly upbeat.

In the gloriously inventive Tom Robbins style, here are characters, phrases, stories, and ideas that dance together on the page, wild and sexy, like Salome herself. Or was it Jezebel?

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