Tom Robbins read-alikes
Dates: 3/16/01,4:52 PM through 3/19/01,12:23 PM (5 postings)
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FROM: Patricia Gibson <pgibson@fred.tnrdlib.bc.ca>
REC'D: 3/16/01, 4:52 PM
Patricia Gibson
Readers' Advisor
TNRD Library System
100-465 Victoria Street
Kamloops, BC V2C 2A9
pgibson@tnrdlib.bc.ca
http://www.tnrdlib.bc.ca
FROM: "Lisa Colcord" <LColcord@ci.glendale.az.us>
REC'D: 3/16/01, 5:13 PM
Lisa
Lisa Colcord
Librarian
Glendale Public library
Glendale, AZ
....my views are my own....
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>>> pgibson@fred.tnrdlib.bc.ca 03/16/01 03:28PM >>>
Hi Everyone,
Do any of you know of some humour fiction written in Tom Robbins style for
my 20 yr. old male patron? He especially likes the eccentric characters of
Robbins' stories and the plot-driven narrative style. TX
Patricia Gibson
Readers' Advisor
TNRD Library System
100-465 Victoria Street
Kamloops, BC V2C 2A9
pgibson@tnrdlib.bc.ca
http://www.tnrdlib.bc.ca
FROM: David Wright <dwright333@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 3/16/01, 5:33 PM
They may well enjoy the works of Richard
Brautigan (Revenge of the Lawn, Trout Fishing in
America, Sombrero Fallout...), T.C. Boyle, John
Barth (Giles Goat Boy), Ken Kesey... maybe
Pynchon... maybe Vonnegut....
if eccentricity's their bag, Harry Crew's
headlong Southern grotesqueries (Feast of Snakes,
All We Need of Hell, Body) can't be beat. Maybe
Terry Southern (The Magic Christian).
On the dark side, Thomas Berger, Charles
Bukowski, certainly Nathaniel West's Day of the
Locust, Robert Coover.
Heck, early Tom Wolfe. Heck, Hunter S.
Tompson.
-David Wright
"So it goes."
--- Patricia Gibson <pgibson@fred.tnrdlib.bc.ca>
wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> Do any of you know of some humour fiction
> written in Tom Robbins style for
> my 20 yr. old male patron? He especially likes
> the eccentric characters of
> Robbins' stories and the plot-driven narrative
> style. TX
>
> Patricia Gibson
> Readers' Advisor
> TNRD Library System
> 100-465 Victoria Street
> Kamloops, BC V2C 2A9
> pgibson@tnrdlib.bc.ca
> http://www.tnrdlib.bc.ca
>
>
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FROM: "Doxtator, Jan" <jdoxtato@uwsp.edu>
REC'D: 3/19/01, 9:22 AM
Jan Doxtator
Portage County Public Library
Stevens Point, WI 54481
FROM: "Michaela Haberkern" <mhaberkern@imail.slcl.lib.mo.us>
REC'D: 3/19/01, 12:23 PM
Your 20 year old male patron might like Zeitgeist, by Bruce Sterling. It reminded me immediately of Tom Robbins, and it's a fun, fast, eccentric read.
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Michaela Haberkern
Manager, Readers' Service
St. Louis County Library Headquarters
1640 S. Lindbergh Blvd.
St. Louis MO 63131
314.994.3300
mhaberkern@slcl.lib.mo.us
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