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A review by spinstah
Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins
3.0
This was just bizarre, but in an enjoyable enough way. The story is pretty fast-paced once you get into it, which is good because I'm not sure I would have finished it if it wasn't moving along at a good pace (and if it wasn't for a book club). It's written in a somewhat hyperactive tone that I found jarring at first.
The book is a weird combination of harebrained philosophies and (what seems like) the author's obsession with sex. (There are some things about it that could really push a feminist's buttons if you were to stop and think about it. I chose not to while I was reading in the interest of finishing.)
As for the story itself, it involves a European royal family in exile in Seattle, where they are being watched by the CIA, and a mad bomber type who meets the princess on a flight to Hawaii where they are both to attend (or blow up) an environmental conference headlined by Ralph Nader. Later in the book, the princess becomes obsessed by the packaging of Camel cigarettes.
I think that sums it up in a lot of ways.
The book is a weird combination of harebrained philosophies and (what seems like) the author's obsession with sex. (There are some things about it that could really push a feminist's buttons if you were to stop and think about it. I chose not to while I was reading in the interest of finishing.)
As for the story itself, it involves a European royal family in exile in Seattle, where they are being watched by the CIA, and a mad bomber type who meets the princess on a flight to Hawaii where they are both to attend (or blow up) an environmental conference headlined by Ralph Nader. Later in the book, the princess becomes obsessed by the packaging of Camel cigarettes.
I think that sums it up in a lot of ways.