Switters is a contradiction for all seasons: an anarchist who works for the government; a pacifist who carries a gun; a vegetarian who sops up ham gravy; a cyberwhiz who hates computers; a man who, though obsessed with the preservation of innocence, is aching to deflower his high-school-age stepsister (only to become equally enamored of a nun ten years his senior). Yet there is nothing remotely wishy-washy about Switters. He doesn’t merely pack a pistol. He is a pistol. And as we dog Switters’s strangely elevated heels across four continents, in and out of love and danger, discovering in the process the “true” Third Secret of Fatima, we experience Tom Robbins—that fearless storyteller, spiritual renegade, and verbal break dancer—at the top of his game. On one level this is a fast-paced CIA adventure story with comic overtones; on another it’s a serious novel of ideas that brings the Big Picture into unexpected focus; but perhaps more than anything else, Fierce Invalids is a sexy celebration of language and life.
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The fierce invalid in Tom Robbins's seventh novel is a philosophical, hedonistic U.S. operative very loosely inspired by a friend of the author. "Sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll are enormously popular in the CIA," claims Switters. "Not with all the agents in the field, but with the good ones, the brightest and the best." Switters isn't really an invalid, but during his first mission (to set free his ornery grandma's parrot, Sailor, in the Amazon jungle), he gets zapped by a spell cast by a "misshapen shaman" of the Kandakandero tribe named End of Time. The shaman is reminiscent of Carlos Castaneda's giggly guru, but his head is pyramid-shaped. In return for a mind-bending trip into cosmic truth--"the Hallways of Always"--Switters must not let his foot touch the earth, or he'll die.
Not that a little death threat can slow him down. Switters simply hops into a wheelchair and rolls off to further footloose adventures, occasionally switching to stilts. For a Robbins hero, to be just a bit high, not earthbound, facilitates enlightenment. He bops from Peru to Seattle, where he's beguiled by the Art Girls of the Pike Place Market and his 16-year-old stepsister, and then off to Syria, where he falls in with a pack of renegade nuns bearing names like Mustang Sally and Domino Thirry. Will Switters see Domino tumble and solve the mystery of the Virgin Mary? Can the nuns convince the Pope to favor birth control--to "zonk the zygotic zillions and mitigate the multitudinous milt" and "wrest free from a woman's shoulders the boa of spermatozoa?" Can the author ever resist a shameless pun or a mutant metaphor?
The tangly plot is almost beside the point. Switters is a colorful undercover agent, and a Robbins novel is really a colorful undercover essay celebrating sex and innocence, drugs and a firm wariness of anything that tries to rewire the mind, and Broadway tunes, especially "Send in the Clowns." Some readers will be intensely offended by Switters's yen for youth and idiosyncratic views on vice. But fans will feel that extremism in the pursuit of serious fun is virtue incarnate. Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates is classic Tom Robbins: all smiles, similes, and subversion. --Tim Appelo -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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"Superb."—New York Post
"As clever and witty a novel as anyone has written in a long time ... The plot is sustained by [Robbins's] usual virtuoso writing and brilliant flashes of insight. ... Robbins takes readers on a wild, delightful ride. ... A delight from beginning to end.-- Buffalo News
"Dangerous? Wicked? Forbidden? You bet. ... Pour yourself a bowl of chips and dig in."—Daily News, New York
"Robbins is a great writer ... and definitely a provocative rascal."—The Tennessean
"Whoever said truth is stranger than fiction never read a Tom Robbins novel. ... Clever, creative, and witty, Robbins tosses off impassioned observations like handfuls of flower petals."—San Diego Union-Tribune
"As clever and witty a novel as anyone has written in a long time ... The plot is sustained by [Robbins's] usual virtuoso writing and brilliant flashes of insight. ... Robbins takes readers on a wild, delightful ride. ... A delight from beginning to end.-- Buffalo News
"Dangerous? Wicked? Forbidden? You bet. ... Pour yourself a bowl of chips and dig in."—Daily News, New York
"Robbins is a great writer ... and definitely a provocative rascal."—The Tennessean
"Whoever said truth is stranger than fiction never read a Tom Robbins novel. ... Clever, creative, and witty, Robbins tosses off impassioned observations like handfuls of flower petals."—San Diego Union-Tribune
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I love Tom Robbins novels - and this was no exception! I find his use of language to be so visually compelling that I find myself ravenous while reading. I do not read the Bestseller list, and I find the mainstream boring, boring, boring! Tom Robbins allows me to go to some other world, exotic location and while I am there the suggestions and ideas cause me to look into myself and evaluate my feelings about Catholicism, CIA, Drugs and meditation in the case of "Fierce...". I can relate and yet I am scandalized, demoralized, titallated and all. I think that Jitterbug is still my favorite, but I can't wait to see more of Switters - and judging from the end of this novel we will!
So, those of you who wish to laugh and look at the world from a Robbinslike perspective ".....relax", pick your feet up and read "Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates".
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No one else writes like Tom Robbins. But thank goodness he does. Not only does he tell a ripping good yarn, but the language he uses shows you that he obviously takes the time to chew and taste each sentence thoroughly. He is in love with words, and it shows on every page. He takes an ordinary scene and makes you see it in a completely new way. For instance, he describes a sunset as the sun dropping like a gold coin into a slot and ocean biting the coin to make sure it is really gold. And you can actually SEE it right along with him. It's so damned, as Switters calls South America, "VIVID."
I've read every Tom Robbins book, except I'm not quite done with this one yet, but it promises to be just as wild and exhilerating of a ride as any of his best ones (which in my opinion are Jitterbug Perfume, Skinny Legs and All, and Still Life with Woodpecker).
Tom Robbins tops my list of people I'd like to go drinking with. I highly recommend that everyone go out and read this, and every other one of his books.
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Ive enjoyed many of Tom Robbins books... this time, however, it seems like his guru status is taking the edge off his writing...main character reminded me of that species of guys who wander around wondering whatever happened to the Beatniks and Magical Mystery Tour Buses...next time I will buy the paperback edition.
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Wahoo! Take some lessons from Switters
This book catapults you to another dimension with the speed of light and fills you with such a passion for life, cynism and sin that you feel like, well, gloriously strolling on... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 13. Mai 2001 von Spela Vintar
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ah well
Maybe Mr Robbin's Guru status has gone to his head...or Im just older....who knows...the edge seems to be gone in this one....nonetheless. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 31. Juli 2000 von Mari333
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Move Over Tom, Christopher Moore needs this spot !
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues -- 3, Another Roadside Attraction -- 2, Still Life with Woodpecker -- 2, Skinny Legs and All -- 1, Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas -- 1, Jitterbug... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 27. Juli 2000 von "yan3"
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A sexy step-sister and feet with no blisters.
I've read all of Tom Robbins' books and this is a great one. If you don't have a warped sense of humor, don't bother. It really gets the wahoo juice flowing.
Veröffentlicht am 24. Juli 2000 von Steve Brown
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Titles are for tadpoles that like onions
I didn't want a title sorry. To me this seems like Another Roadside Attraction (his first book) but improved. I didn't like that book at all. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 21. Juli 2000 von Sean M. Griffing
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Tom Robbins' most mature novel to date
One reads Tom Robbins for fun, philosophy and images and metaphor that continually push the envelope. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 20. Juli 2000 von T. Alex Miller
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If you like Rimbaud, you'll love Switters
This is my favorite Tom Robbins to date, excepting "Jitterbug Perfume" and "Still Life with Woodpecker" -- oh, and "Skinny Legs and All. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 19. Juli 2000 von kelly levan
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Tom Robbins does it again!
I thoroughly enjoyed every single moment that this book was in my hands. I look forward to reading it again!
Am 18. Juli 2000 veröffentlicht
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the Wake
"riverrun past eve and adam's..." the first five words of a man's decent into ruin. They appear nowhere in hot invalids (that I know of). Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 17. Juli 2000 von Skrause
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Relax!
Some of my favourite books are by Tom Robbins: Another Roadside Attraction, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Skinny Legs & All. I was ecstatic to receive his new book. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 16. Juli 2000 von TundraVision
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