All of Tom Robbins books are bestsellers, but they’re only best sellers for a week or two. I remember thinking that it felt more like rock concert than an appearance by an author. The audience at the show was similarly excited and aroused. One of the lead male characters became aroused when he smelled the urine of his lover…after she ate asparagus. I remember a passage from one of his books. Because Tom Robbins loves women and this is easily sensed in his books. The audience was comprised of more women than men. It is San Francisco after all and unconventional notions, like those in Tom Robbin’s book, play very well there. I did not want this to happen with Tom Robbins but it was a risk I was willing to take. I’ll still read his future books but will have to struggle to disassociate the man from the man’s works.
Then, I saw him on Bill Maher and found him pompous and arrogant. I have read many Tom Wolfe books (Bonfire of the Vanities, A Man in Full, and one he had just written called I Am Charlotte Simmons) and enjoyed all of them. Recently, I saw Tom Wolfe on the Bill Maher show. I was definitely excited for this but also had a bit of trepidation: if I did not like him, it would change my whole perspective when reading his books. My girlfriend at the time, knowing my fondness for Tom Robbins, surprised me with tickets to go see him at a famed theater in San Francisco (I don’t remember its name). Obsessed are the people who go to readings 3 nights a week at coffee houses, live their lives through books instead of really living there lives, and…people who frequently go see authors speak. There is an appreciation of the Arts and there is obsession. I usually would not be a fan of such absurd notions, but with Tom Robbins, it all just works.
Two things I love!Įvery Tom Robbins book is similar in this respect: expect the unexpected…like utensils having a conversation or a love story that takes place inside a pack of camel cigarettes. Two of the remedies are: lots of sex and lots of baths. Also, he teaches you how to live forever. Tom Robbins combines profound and playful in perfect proportion.
Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins may be one of my favorite books of all time.
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