Wild Tommy Flying Backward

My friend and beloved Prince Tommy Rotten, aka Tom Robbins if you look up his name on Amazon.com, just published his new book, Wild Ducks Flying Backward. My attempt to read it failed already twice. I bought the book, and my copy got "stolen" by two different friends who had to catch a plane. I feel for people who have to endure a long flight without a good book.

So now, I'm almost out of the door, on the road to the bookstore again. This time, however, I'm going to buy the audiobook, aka the book read by the author himself. The author happens to have a voice that transports me miles and miles away in a happy kingdom. I love men with this kind of voices. Actually I love only men with great voices. And I love Tom Robbins.

I really REALLY love him. Not only because he is "the most dangerous writer alive", as a critic once wrote regaling Tom with infinite delight. Not only because his writing makes adults sing in the shower and puts babies to sleep as a lullaby. I love Tom Robbins because he's the most positive person I've ever met and he always sees the... jar of mayonnaise half full. I love Tom because he's smart and witty but also a lot of fun.

Tom is living proof of my theory as I explained it in "the age trap". Tom kept playing all his life, and he will still play in his next ten reincarnations. In this life, he has been playing with me too, several times. It happens either by e-mail, or walking in the scented woods of the Olympic Peninsula, looking for "vitel tonnè" at the deli in the historical center of my native city in Italy, Milan, or here in the Future, in my house in the Los Angeles hills. And I always have a hell of a good time with him and his beautiful, wolf-eyed, tarot-mancer bride Alexa.

So I hope you will have a good time with him too. Go buy his book and plan a cozy evening reading at home. I promise, you won't be sorry.

That's what I'm going to do tonight and... I can't wait for the night! Tiramisu gelato and a new Tom Robbins' book after dinner... hmmmm...

Who said happiness is not of this world ???

Comments

[JT]

This was fun to read. I agree with you. There is no writer around who is as fun and inspiring as Robbins.