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Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas

By: Tom Robbins
Narrated by: Barry Bostwick
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Imagine this: When the stock market crashes on the Thursday before Easter, you — an ambitious, although ineffectual and not entirely ethical young broker — are convinced that you're facing the Weekend from Hell. Before the market reopens on Monday, you must scramble and scheme to cover your butt, but there's no way you can anticipate the baffling disappearance of a 300-pound psychic, the fall from grace of a born-again monkey, or the intrusion in your life of a tattooed stranger intent on blowing your mind and most of your fuses.

Over these fateful three days, you will be forced to confront everything from mysterious African rituals to legendary amphibians, from tarot-card bombshells to street violence, from your own sexuality to outer space. This is, after all, a Tom Robbins novel — and the author has never been in finer form.

©1994 Tom Robbins (P)1995 Phoenix Books, Inc. Genre Fiction Literature & Fiction Magical Realism Fantasy Fiction Magic Funny Witty
Clever Metaphors • Complex Characters • Brilliant Performance • Humorous Situations • Layered Concepts
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I loved everything but the ending... a little too abrupt, with unanswered questions and plot holes.

What, it's over?

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Barry Bostwick gives a brilliant performance in this hilarious book where everything goes comically wrong for our heroine...or does it?

Simply one of the best audio book performances ever!

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Great book but a terrible reading. His character voices he used ruined it for me.

Terrible Reading

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At the time I downloaded this book only Format 3 was available, which is a big step down in audio quality from other audiobooks in my Library. Eventually, I got used to the muffled sounds, but it is far from ideal.


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Tom Robbins develops interesting, believable characters and amusing situations in Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas, my first Robbins read, and he has a knack for churning out unexpectedly clever metaphors. I love the second person narration. But, about 3/4 of the way through the book, he uses the characters as mouthpieces to lecture on ridiculous theories of aliens and ancient civilization. This dialogue seemed forced, and my interest in the book waned, but I have stuck with it.

Interesting read, poor audio quality

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It's written like nothing else. The writing is so beautiful but intense and sometimes hard to follow auditorally. And the ending was disappointing and unclear.

Writing is genius

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Lol Robbins is always entertaining. This isn't mt favorite work of his but someone as talented as him still achieves even when he misses.

Not Robbins best but still not bad

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Not one of Robbins better works. The 2nd person narrative perspective is interesting, but there is a reason why it is not used that frequently. Robbin's pulls it off, but the plot and characters of this book are, dare I say, mundane compared to some of Robbins other works. But really the biggest problem with this story is Barry Bostwicks reading. The voices of the lead male (is that Jack Nicholson I hear?) and female are so bizarre and off the mark that it is actually detrimental to understanding the charchters. Overall a very enjoyable story, but i would recommend picking it up in book form.

Only for those that love Robbins

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I have read that a book before but it was great to listen to it.

Amazing book

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Amazing
Witty doesn't even come close to describing this work of verbal art!!!!
Amazing. Wow. Wow. Wow.
Wow. Wow. Wow.

Witty doesn't even come close to describing.

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the main character is a Filipino woman with the nickname squeak. the narrator made her sound like Garfield the cat.

wrong narrator

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