Leigh-Cherie arrests Bernard, they fall in love, argue over politics and the best ways to be in the world as well as how to make love stay, and the rest is as Tom Robbins as it gets: the moon, aliens, Argonians, princes, red heads, guardians assuming long abandoned thrones, pyramids, and communing over packs of Camel Cigarettes. At a CareFest symposium she meets the notorious outlaw, Bernard Mickey Wrangle, who is our second lead and is attempting to disrupt the CareFest but inadvertently disrupts a simultaneously occurring UFO convention. Heart broken and embarrassed from recent personal events, she’s also striving to figure out how best to use her privilege and position as a Princess to change the world for good. Still Life’s first protagonist is the disillusioned Princess Leigh-Cherie, in exile with her mother and father in America. This used to annoy me because I always thought the protagonists and stories of Skinny Legs and All and Even Cowgirls Get the Blues were way better, and while I still love them more, my view of Still Life has improved with time. When I talk to people about Tom Robbins, they almost always bring up Still Life with Woodpecker. That being said, this round of Cannonball Review Catching up includes my all-time favorite of all the Tom Robbins books, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, his work which I often perceive as the most popular amongst others (especially men ), Still Life with Woodpecker, and one that I’m not entirely sure I’ve actually read before, Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas.
Even after re-reading a handful more of Tom Robbins’ books, there is not much I can say differently about why I love his writing and his stories so much that I didn’t already say in my first re-read review of Skinny Legs and All.
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