Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates - Travel Adventure Novel by Tom Robbins - Perfect for Book Clubs & Summer Reading
Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates - Travel Adventure Novel by Tom Robbins - Perfect for Book Clubs & Summer Reading

Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates - Travel Adventure Novel by Tom Robbins - Perfect for Book Clubs & Summer Reading" (注:根据您提供的原始标题,这似乎是Tom Robbins的小说书名。我保持了原标题的文学独特性,同时添加了作者信息和典型使用场景,符合SEO规范。如果是其他类型产品请提供更多信息,我可以重新优化。)

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A “deranged and delightful concoction” (Fortune) about a CIA agent with uniquely peculiar proclivities, from the New York Times bestselling author of Still Life with Woodpecker“Clever, creative, and witty, Robbins tosses off impassioned observations like handfuls of flower petals.”—The San Diego Union-TribuneSwitters is a contradiction for all seasons: an anarchist who works for the government; a pacifist who carries a gun; a vegetarian who sops up ham gravy; a cyberwhiz who hates computers; a man who, though obsessed with the preservation of innocence, is aching to deflower his high-school-age stepsister (only to become equally enamored of a nun ten years his senior).Yet there is nothing remotely wishy-washy about Switters. He doesn’t merely pack a pistol. He is a pistol. And as we dog Switters’s strangely elevated heels across four continents, in and out of love and danger, discovering in the process the “true” Third Secret of Fatima, we experience Tom Robbins—that fearless storyteller, spiritual renegade, and verbal break dancer—at the top of his game. On one level this is a fast-paced CIA adventure story with comic overtones; on another it’s a serious novel of ideas that brings the Big Picture into unexpected focus; but perhaps more than anything else, Fierce Invalids is a sexy celebration of language and life.

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This is one of the funniest and most entertaining books I've ever read.And it has the most quotable quotes. Here's a sample:"The two things they all had in common were a cynical suspicion of politico-economic systems and a disdain for what passed for "patriotism" in the numbed noodles of the manipulated masses.""The old 'for reasons of national security' alibi. Heh! I'm a loyal American of long standing, but that doesn't mean I'm so flag-addled I can't recognize our favorite euphemism for 'governmental hanky-panky swept under the rug.'""It had to be good because all around it, in every direction, as far as his eyes could see, the world was as empty and dry as a dummy's condom.""And what is your faith, exactly, Mr. Switters? What do you believe in?""Umm. Well. I try not to""You try not to believe?""That's right. I'm on the run for the Killer B's.""Pardon? What have killer bees to do with?...""B for Belief. B for Belonging. The B's that lead to most of the killing in the world. If you don't Belong among us, then you're our inferior, or our enemy, or both; and you can't Belong with us unless you Believe what we Believe. Maybe not even then, but it certainly helps. Our religion, our party, our tribe, our town, our school, our race, our nation. Believe. Belong. Behave. Or Be damned.""Man," said Switters, "that's a nasty-looking crowd of clouds over there, all rough and raggedy-assed and milling about, like a herd of white-trash shoppers just crawled out of shacks and sheds and trailer homes for the end-of-winter sale at Wal-Mart.""Switters, are you ever, on you own, inclined toward prayer?"He barely hesitated. "When I feel I'm in need of shark repellent, I try to pray. When I feel I'm in need of smelling salts, I try to meditate. I'm not saying that one's necessarily superior to the other -- both are capable of being reduced to a kind of metaphysical panhandling -- but if more people smelled the salts and woke the hell up, they'd find they wouldn't need to be fretting about sharks all the time.""Although he seemed highly intelligent, Switters could detect that his was an intellect of the shrewd variety, the kind that grasped facts and figures and understood virtually nothing of genuine importance; a well-oiled brain dedicated to the defense, perpetuation, and exploitation of every cliché and superstition in the saddlebags of institutionalized reality."