Reddit mentions of Skinny Legs and All: A Novel

You know what? I'm sure everyone's going to share any of the actual books on awakening or enlightenment or whatever (although I don't see The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are by Alan Watts listed yet, and that was instrumental for getting the ball rolling for me before I even knew there was a ball to roll - I still pick it up every now and again and read passages).

But anyway, in my early 20's, I was REALLY into Tom Robbins, and I realize now that those books connected me with a truth I didn't yet know how to find. He's a freakin' genius. His words still, to this day, make me giddy.

So if you're ever interested in wild, hilarious, raucous fiction that gropes the awakened viewpoint like a drunk in a whorehouse, I recommend these books:

Skinny Legs and All

Jitterbug Perfume

Still Life With Woodpecker

He has more, and they're all equally is good in many ways - those three just happen to be my favorite.

I'm a big fan of Tom Robbins' earlier books – Skinny Legs and All and Jitterbug Perfume are my favourites.

If you want to cry your eyes out (or maybe that's just me – it was at a weird time and I ended up sobbing on a park bench in San Francisco), there's Not Wanted on the Voyage by Timothy Findley.

Edited to add Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible and Pigs in Heaven.

My favorite light reading book is Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins. My name is Kat (for real) and I would like it because it makes me think and laugh all at the same time.