G. Barnett

"FILM_IN_THE_BUFF"

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Location: A PATRIOT IN THE USA

In My Own Words:

Painter; music, film and book lover. Happily married forever to Lori. Fun is floating in a pool (preferably in Hawai'i) with everything but my nose submerged (I like quiet). There's no way I could have a favorite book (well, Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin wins my fiction award) or movie (impossible; new ones are arriving all the time, but Charlie Kaufman and Spike Jonze win my Oscar awards for scre… Read more

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Villa Incognito by Tom Robbins	Please don't start with this book!, Jun 4 2004 Tom Robbins is a very smart, funny writer with no apparent end of inspiration. His humor can be sweet or raunchy. He puns shamelessly. And yet...these books stay with me for years. OK, so I just read this one and the images are still dripping down the screen of my mind's eye, but still. His language alone is enough to make you want to re-read a sentence every other paragraph, for the beauty and for the pure invention contained therein. I still like "Skinny Legs and All" best. But this one is close. Very close. Fans should not be disappointed. Newbies should read his entire oeuvre in order, for no particular reason other than watching this smarty pants' brain expand over the… Read more

Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins	Perhaps his best work to date (2004), May 21 2004 I have read all of Mr. Robbins' works except Villa Incognito (on its way to me now), and this particular novel is a step above the rest, at least for me. While a bunch of people I know had trouble with the turkey, the sock, the spoon and the bent can, I can't begin to say how much I enjoyed seeing them meshed into a wonderful story that includes a satirical statement on the condition of the NYC art world, the Dance of the Seven Veils vs a football game, and especially a microcosmic view of the neverending conflict in the mideast shown in the gentlest of fashions. For anyone who has a great ability for suspension of disbelief, this gem truly sparkles. And then there is Turn Around… Read more

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