| Skinny Legs and All | By: Tom Robbins | Type: Novel | 1990 |
| 15 % : I wish I hadn't bothered to read it |
| Review : It had some well built characters and scenes, some really alternative angles, but they often go over the edge into being just plain silly |
| meaning : doesn't get over any important messages about life a bit of a dissapointment |
| comments : Comedy must have an element of reality. Often it's tedious;
he uses far too many words and detail about trivial things. Other times
he goes too fast. At the end he rushed to tidy everthing up in 5 pages
and it doesn't really workWe see Tom's life through a number of different
episodes as a result of which he moves away from following a bad path and
grows up to bea strong character.
A number of times the book seems to push too much religious propoganda strange - a weird rugby game and the boys are given beer on Saturdays |
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