scorpstar77 's review for:

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates by Tom Robbins

5.0

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I love Tom Robbins. So, so much. The first one I ever read is still my favorite - Jitterbug Perfume - but really, I've never read one that I didn't like at all. My least favorite is Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas, but even that one is pretty good until the very end. Anyway, so about this book. I liked it a lot. Robbins enjoys pushing boundaries, and this book is no different. Our hero is a CIA agent named Switters (who hates guns but won't give up his Berretta, who is a high-level computer hacker but hates the internet, who is generally a study in contradictions - aren't we all). Through a misadventure (or constructive events?) in South America, Switters loses some degree of freedom of mobility and is launched on ridiculous series of events that somehow get him back to exactly where he needs to be. Some of Robbins favorite themes surface, including religion, sex and taboo. I had a good time reading it - but it's not for the squeamish, because some of the taboos the hero and his best bud discuss breaking involve sex that is considered highly inappropriate by today's standards, and some of the thoughts broached on religion could be interpreted as offensive. But that's nothing new to Robbins fans :)