" This book was kind of a drag, for some reason. I was not in the mood for a novel, I guess. I wanted to see how it ended but did not have as much fun with it as I do with most Tome Robbins that I have read. Maybe I got worn out by Robbins' use of metaphors that seem to vie for attention the way that bad actors do in a amateur theatrical production. Thus one of the things I like about Robbins, finally got to be too much for me. "
— Jim, 1/25/2014