{"id":5215,"date":"2018-03-23T11:11:44","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T15:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/?p=5215"},"modified":"2018-03-23T10:20:21","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T14:20:21","slug":"another-roadside-attraction-by-tom-robbins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/book-review\/fantasy\/modernurban\/another-roadside-attraction-by-tom-robbins\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Roadside Attraction, by Tom Robbins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5216 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Another-Roadside-Attraction-by-Tom-Robbins-157x250.jpg\" alt=\"Another Roadside Attraction, by Tom Robbins book cover\" width=\"157\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Another-Roadside-Attraction-by-Tom-Robbins-157x250.jpg 157w, https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Another-Roadside-Attraction-by-Tom-Robbins.jpg 251w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 157px) 100vw, 157px\" \/><strong>Genre: \u00a0Fantasy<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Publisher: \u00a0Bantam Books<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Published: 1971<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Reviewer Rating:\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-238\" src=\"http:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/fourhalfstars.gif\" alt=\"four and a half stars\" width=\"57\" height=\"13\" \/><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Reviewer: \u00a0Michael D. Griffiths<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Have you read this book?<br \/>\n<span id=\"post-ratings-5215\" class=\"post-ratings\" data-nonce=\"3e27463809\">Why not rate it! <img id=\"rating_5215_1\" src=\"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/stars\/rating_off.gif\" alt=\"1 Star\" title=\"1 Star\" onmouseover=\"current_rating(5215, 1, '1 Star');\" onmouseout=\"ratings_off(0, 0, 0);\" onclick=\"rate_post();\" onkeypress=\"rate_post();\" style=\"cursor: pointer; border: 0px;\" \/><img id=\"rating_5215_2\" src=\"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/stars\/rating_off.gif\" alt=\"2 Stars\" title=\"2 Stars\" onmouseover=\"current_rating(5215, 2, '2 Stars');\" onmouseout=\"ratings_off(0, 0, 0);\" onclick=\"rate_post();\" onkeypress=\"rate_post();\" style=\"cursor: pointer; border: 0px;\" \/><img id=\"rating_5215_3\" src=\"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/stars\/rating_off.gif\" alt=\"3 Stars\" title=\"3 Stars\" onmouseover=\"current_rating(5215, 3, '3 Stars');\" onmouseout=\"ratings_off(0, 0, 0);\" onclick=\"rate_post();\" onkeypress=\"rate_post();\" style=\"cursor: pointer; border: 0px;\" \/><img id=\"rating_5215_4\" src=\"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/stars\/rating_off.gif\" alt=\"4 Stars\" title=\"4 Stars\" onmouseover=\"current_rating(5215, 4, '4 Stars');\" onmouseout=\"ratings_off(0, 0, 0);\" onclick=\"rate_post();\" onkeypress=\"rate_post();\" style=\"cursor: pointer; border: 0px;\" \/><img id=\"rating_5215_5\" src=\"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/stars\/rating_off.gif\" alt=\"5 Stars\" title=\"5 Stars\" onmouseover=\"current_rating(5215, 5, '5 Stars');\" onmouseout=\"ratings_off(0, 0, 0);\" onclick=\"rate_post();\" onkeypress=\"rate_post();\" style=\"cursor: pointer; border: 0px;\" \/> <br \/><span class=\"post-ratings-text\" id=\"ratings_5215_text\"><\/span><\/span><span id=\"post-ratings-5215-loading\" class=\"post-ratings-loading\"><img src=\"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/loading.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" class=\"post-ratings-image\" \/>Loading...<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Another Roadside Attraction<\/strong>, by<em> Tom Robbins<\/em> was published in part as a tribute to the creativity and individuality which developed out of the 60s. The story centers around a free thinking and beautiful young clairvoyant, named Amanda, who questions all reality and makes up her own mind about what is right and then behaves accordingly. She marries a magician, complete with a pet baboon, and they set out to make their own type of roadside attraction in the woods of Washington State.<\/p>\n<p>They live off the land and expand their minds in an Eden of sorts which they perfect for themselves. All might have continued this way had not a spirit of chaos, in the form of Plucky Purcell, who quite by accident, joined a secret sect of military Catholics serving the pope.<\/p>\n<p>He gets assigned to the Vatican, and one random earthquake later, he discovers the corpse of Jesus Christ. This of course questions the legitimacy of the creator of Christianity being a divine being. After stealing the body, he brings it to what has become perhaps the most controversial road attraction in the history of mankind.<\/p>\n<p>Robbins is a splendid writer. Like an artist with a blank canvas, he paints Amanda as a dashing anarchistic figure with a wisdom as deep as the earth. The book examines and reexamines both popular and novel philosophical content, against a backdrop of colorful freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Such a well written book has few downsides, but any supernatural feats are downplayed and this book is more literary, thoughtful, and comic over fantasy or action.<\/p>\n<p>If someone would like to veer away from the norm and enjoy a brilliant novel which sets out not only to entertain, but perhaps expand your mind, this book should be part of your A list.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Skinjumpers-Michael-D-Griffiths\/dp\/0983170959\/\">Skinjumpers, by Michael D. Griffiths<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genre: \u00a0Fantasy Publisher: \u00a0Bantam Books Published: 1971 Reviewer Rating:\u00a0 Reviewer: \u00a0Michael D. Griffiths Have you read this book? Another Roadside Attraction, by Tom Robbins was published in part as a tribute to the creativity and individuality which developed out of the 60s. The story centers around a free thinking and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":5216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[145],"tags":[76,1287,779,131,1286],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5215"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5232,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5215\/revisions\/5232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}