Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Tim Robbins is an ASS. He is a creative literary genius and he throws it in your face all throughout this book. You will walk away from this novel not only because it is gross, (or because you have pieces of Tim Robbin's genius on your face), but also because you wont be able to figure out why someone so apparently gifted would write about this trivial crap. It will stump you for days, and on the fifth day you will realize that TR is just what he appears to bea gifted and obscenely talented ASS. [...]

You know that road trip you've always wanted to take? (Maybe you've taken it already and if so, I am jealous of you.) You know that road trip you're always planning, the one where you drive a beat-up, gorgeous, car full of books and old clothes, and mix tapes and takeout containers and random souveneirs of americana, through america, maybe by yourself or maybe with one or a few of the people you love most in the world? And you take polaroids of yourself and your wear ripped up jeans and drive ba [...]

Bah. Many people won't find this review helpful. I do care about that, but not enough to change my review, because I feel it encompasses my feelings for this book quite fully. Here it is:I had to choose between continuing to read ECGTB or staring at the back of the airplane seat in front of me. I chose the back of the seat.Repeatedly.I'd read a section, and think to myself "This is shit!" and put it down to stare at the seat in front of me. Then I would think to myself "Come on. You're on a plan [...]

I found the first two thirds of the book to be engaging, after that I felt like I was reading the term paper of an intro to philosophy student.Also, even if the first two thirds were engaging, I was often uncomfortable, and not uncomfortable in that "hey, I'm stretching my thoughts beyond their normal boundaries" kind of uncomfortable, just the regular kind of uncomfortable.Take for example the legend of Sissy's earliest hitchhiking endeavors. Reading about a young girl being molested by strange [...]

Lost a star as one of the morals of the story is "Lesbians, deep down, need dicking." I'm not going to get mad at a lesbian-identified person who falls in love with or wants to have sex with cis men, but Robbins goes on to explain that this is literally what lesbians, lovely and sweet and cute as their affairs are, need. Boo.

Κατά κοινή ομολογία, ο Robbins είναι αντισυμβατικός συγγραφέας με αχαλίνωτη φαντασία. Γενικά δεν τον προτείνω εύκολα γιατί είναι weirdo και εγώ δεν είμαι τόσο weirdo (ελπίζω). Αnyhow, αυτό είναι το τέταρτο ανάγνωσμά του που πιάνω. Το πρώτο ήταν το Άρωμα του ονείρου (πολύ ιδιαίτερο βιβλίο [...]

Okay so overall I did like this book, but I am not giving it more then these two stars. You know why? Because I have a problem with a man that writes about lesbians who then interjects himself sexually into the story at the end and has the lesbians hook up with men. Fuck you Tom Robbins! You took a giant shit in the middle of perfectly good and delicious pie. You ruined it. Otherwise the story would have been awesome. I felt so cheated at the end. Another reason I don't like you is because back [...]

"AMAZING! This book came into my life by chance and I am glad it did. A hilarious and engaging read that also questioned and affirmed pieces of my own life in powerful ways. Apparently this book has been around for a generation, but I think it needs a rebirth - it is still relevant, maybe even moreso now that the "mainstream" has changed. Some specific points from the novel that I love: Why are white people always looking for spirituality in other cultures? We have a full, real, historically gro [...]

Ha ha ho ho and FUCK THIS BOOK.On the upside, Even Cowgirls Get The Blues proves that I am not biased toward one of my favorite authors. I adore Tom Robbins, and have hitherto enjoyed four of his books. I rank 'Jitterbug Perfume' and 'Fierce Invalids' among my favorite books of all time. But Cowgirls was, for me, utterly loathsome to read. I had to force myself through every chapter.Seriously. Its extremely tame philosophical themes feel intended for an older generation. And there is SO. MUCH. O [...]

Now listen, I loved "Jitterbug Perfume". I love Tom Robbins' twisted sense of humour, I love his philosophical meanderings and smatterings of bizarre facts, and I fully expected to love this book. However, "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" made me want to spit nails.Why? Because Mr. Robbins pretends he is writing a treatise on female rights, starring lesbians and cowgirls and a hitchhiking philosopheress with a strange but wonderful disfigurement who all resist 1970s society's inclination to turn th [...]

I think I'm supposed to like this but it just annoyed me. Good narrator though. Life's too short for annoying books. Moving on

I hated this book and would give it half a star if I could.Let me be clear- he is a good writer and knows his way around the words BUT the book reads like this: "I celebrate randomness Random, random, in your face moralizing, random. Ah ha, you think I've taken it too far, well, sucks for you because I'm going to take it further. In fact, if you don't enjoy this next tangent it's because you are not as enlightened and intelligent as I am! Random, random, in your face moralizing, random." Having [...]

Μια ιστορία για μια κοπέλα η οποία έχει μια δυσμορφία-δύο μεγάλους αντίχειρες-που,όμως, μαθαίνει να τη "χρησιμοποιεί" για να κάνει ωτοστόπ!Ένα (ακόμα) σουρεάλ, μαγικό, αλλά και "λογικό μέσα στην τρέλα του" βιβλίο από τον Robbins. Ένα βιβλίο που μιλά για αυτούς τους "διαφορετικούς" � [...]

Passage From Book:This sentence is made of lead ( and a sentence of lead gives a reader an entirely different sensation from one made of magnesium). This sentence is made of yak wool. This sentence is made of sunlight and plums. This sentence is made of ice. This sentence is made from the blood of the poet. This sentence was made in Japan. This sentence glows in the dark. This sentence was born with a caul. This sentence has a crush on Norman Mailer. This sentence is a wino and doesn't care who [...]

I hated this book. Hated it. HATED IT. I can't say that enough, sometimes it feels really good to hate something that deserves to be hated. I think Tom Robbins is a chump. I think it's pretty funny that he attempted to write a novel intended to be taken as liberating to women, but managed to come up with some of the weakest women characters I have ever read about. I hate his voice, and I hate his snarky little interjections. I felt like this was about listening to Tom Robbins' drone on and on ab [...]

Gosh, but I hated this book. It felt smarmy. And mind you, I love people like Pynchon et al, but this felt like it thought it was smart but wasn't very, and it hasn't aged well. Made myself finish it because I'd been told I'd love Robbins, but this was my introduction and I never looked back.

Right. I skipped the book and went straight to the movie because of course I wasn't about to waste no time reading another *book* by Mr Robbins but I did need corroboration of my intense dislike of this nut-job and of course the film was very convincing that I need never bother thinking about reading another of Mr Robbins' books. I think I'd rather read all the sequels to Wicked or something from Hermann Hesse than another Robbins book.

I read Tom Robbins' EVEN COWGIRLS GET THE BLUES as a teenager. I loved every word. It was sexy, funny, and full of glamorous scenery and beautiful writing. But when I read the reviews on , I cannot believe there are actually people who find it ugly and offensive. Why? Because it isn't a realistic look at the gay lifestyle as it's "supposed" to be lived? Anyone over 12 who reads the book will know it has NOTHING TO DO with "real" lesbians, any more than STAR WARS is a documentary about the daily [...]

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues offers a hitherto unexplored form of fantasy which is wild, unpredictable, hilarious and beautiful. It is no surprise that Tom Robbins once again seduces the reader with his ever-intentive ways of expressing life and emotion through words. It is a surprise, however, that this most obscure story about a hitchiker born with abnormally huge thumbs is so deeply compelling. Who could have dreamt up such an idea except for Tom Robbins?Even Cowgirls Get the Blues is simultan [...]

So embarrassing.

Şöyle bir baktım yorumlara, herkes "i hated" diye başlamış. Niye hated arkadaşım, neden sevmediniz bu kitabı? Robbins'in cıvık oyunculuğuna ben de çok tahammül edemiyorum gerçi, o yüzden bir türlü cesaret edemiyordum kitaplarına başlamaya. Kalın kalın kitaplar da olduklarından bir süre sonra "öeeh" dedirtebiliyorlar. Ama kurgularına bayılıyorum. Her şeyi her şeyle karıştırması (mitolojik göndermeler, fizik, metafizik, gerçek, hayal, oyun, ciddiyet), hayatla ve [...]

Awful. Just awful. Though the author does sometimes have a charming way with words, more often than not that way is overshadowed by his by-now-extremely-dated New Age philosophy and "aren't-I-a-fantastic-writer?" ego. Meanwhile, you're doing the difficult and mind-numbingly unappealing work of attempting to dredge up half a liking for a single one of his cardboard characters (who are presumably meant to be intriguing one-and-all due to some bizarre and randomly-assigned attribute, and who, weird [...]

Tom Robbins is a pure stylist. In Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, it’s almost guaranteed that every few pages there’ll be a description that’s incredibly unique and accurate. Robbins paints a slew of eccentric characters—the main girl, Sissy Hankshaw, who hitchhikes around with giant thumbs; the Countess, a gay tycoon who has his own line of feminine hygiene products; the happily misnomered Chink, who would rather throw rocks at people than give them the enlightenment they think he has to o [...]

This is some of the best writing I've read on the sentence/paragraph level. I wasn't particularly concerned with where things were going plotwise at first because it was such a pleasure to read Robbins's prose, but I eventually found myself drawn into the story too. This book is silly, clever, thoughtful, endearing, sweet, dirty, poignant, thought-provoking, funny, pithy, punny and charming, etc. The feminism made me proud to be a woman without turning me against men. Robbins is critical and phi [...]

I think this book can be best summarized by quickly scanning the list of reviews; people love it or they loathe it.Me? I loved it.I'll admit that I might be biased in favor of this book simply because I have a fairly unusual set of opposable digits myself. You see, first and foremost, this is a story about thumbs. Well, its is a story about thumbs, cowgirls, body odor, literary theory, feminism, epiphanies, dirty old men, the end of time, sex, psychoanalysis and liberation. But it's mostly about [...]

Yeah, yeah, I know. I'm supposed to love this book/author. But mostly, this book read like a frat guy's fantasy about women.Have fun reading it for yourself, though. I'm not nearly as clever as Tim Robbins.

Ah, now I remember why I loved Robbins and why I stopped. My first year of college ended in 1983, and one of my new roommates that summer introduced me to the writing of Tom Robbins (Thank you, Kendra!) Such daring, such freedom: you can do whatever you want and screw The Man. Here was this guy telling me how to do anything I wanted and have fun, have a laugh even. The Vonnegut -loving portion of my brain lit up in recognition. Heady stuff. Happy revolution. This is one of the things we go to co [...]

My all-time, absolute, favorite book ever. The 'stranded-on-a-desert-island-with-only-one-book' favorite. I can read this one over and over.Hitch-hikers, lesbians, whooping cranes, feminine hygenine products - it has everything. And written in a lyrical manner that begs to be read out loud. (Trust me - I have done this. Parts of this book are poetry.)I haven't given away as many copies of this as I have 'Good Omens' because I think it doesn't have as broad an appeal. I wish it did. Really - ever [...]

Enough is enough είπα και το έκλεισα! Δεν είναι ότι δε μ' αρέσει η γραφή του Ρόμπινς (το villa incognito μου άρεσε αρκετά και ο Τρυποκάρυδος είναι από τα αγαπημένα μου βιβλία ever)δεν είναι ούτε ότι η ιστορία δεν είναι καλή- το θέμα, οι σωματικές δυσμορφίες ή/και η ομοφυλοφιλία, θα μπορούσε να δ [...]

I'm giving it three stars because of Tom Robbins' ability to make fantastical and creative (although sometimes rather esoteric) metaphors.I'm not sure if my biggest problem with the rest of the book is that he's actually an ass about women while thinking he's a feminist OR if it's that the book is such a self-indulgent vehicle for him to spout all of his own philosophies through the "opinions" of his characters. He wrote this book about points he wants to make about life and the universe, not re [...]