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Sometimes he's everything I wish Tom Robbin's could be. Sometimes he's not quite all the things that Tom Robbins is. I'm only halfway through Fool on the Hill right now, and I've already seen ancient Greek myths, faeries, telepathic cats and dogs and a writer who can call the wind, not to mention a bunch of very, very fine and quirky characters. I love novels with a strong sense of place, and this one makes you feel the presence of the Cornell University campus (with a few magical additions) as though you had been reared there. Watch out for the Tolkein-based fraternity and the re-telling of the Inferno as a dogfight in the suburbia of the damned.