Thank you for all the recommendations =)
A lot of these I've not heard of and will definitely check out.
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Originally Posted by montsnmags
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You know, I read
Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas and was profoundly underwhelmed, but friends have mostly convinced me I should take a whack at something more 'canonical' like
Cowgirls or
Jitterbug Perfume.
I started in on
Another Roadside Attraction as well, and was fed up with it maybe 30-40 pages in. It just seems to me that he's trying too hard to be original, which comes off more as contrived, and all the characters are portrayed with this smirking quality, to the point that everyone in both books (
Pajamas and
Roadside) comes off as a massive d-bag. If the author can't be bothered to sympathize with his characters, why would I care if they live, die, or get sold a bridge to Betelgeuse?
I will pick up
Jitterbug Perfume at some point and try to keep an open mind, but so far Robbins strikes me as a poor derivative of John Barth with a bit of the Mesoamerican Magical Realists thrown in, all packaged for greater accessibility.