Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas

By: Tom Robbins

Narrated by: Barry Bostwick

Length: 14 hrs and 5 mins

Publisher's summary

Imagine this: When the stock market crashes on the Thursday before Easter, you, an ambitious broker, not overly successful or ethical, know you're facing the Weekend from Hell. With only 72 hours to scheme and scramble your way out of this nightmare, you find yourself confronted with a 300-pound psychic, a tattooed stranger, African rituals, legendary amphibians, outer space, and your own sexuality. Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas, the highly praised novel from Tom Robbins, places the listener at the center of a wildly psychotic journey. When it is over, will you - and the world - be wiser, sadder, better in some way? Or merely possessed of a complete understanding of the surprisingly serious phrase, "half asleep in frog pajamas?"

©1994 by Tom Robbins (P)1995 by Dove Audio, Inc.

Critic reviews

"Trying to describe a Tom Robbins novel by summarizing its plot is like pointing to a snowflake and asking someone to grasp the concept of downhill skiing." (The Los Angeles Times)

Fun Read

What did you like about the performance? What did you dislike?

i often don't like the way male narrators do female voices, and this was no exception. The story itself was so wacky, though, that a little more weirdness just added to the craziness of the story.

Could you see Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas being made into a movie or a TV series? Who should the stars be?

This could be a great short movie - there is barely enough here to fill 90 minutes.

Any additional comments?

This book has a lot of elements of the typical Murakami book, without the elegance.

Interesting read, poor audio quality

At the time I downloaded this book only Format 3 was available, which is a big step down in audio quality from other audiobooks in my Library. Eventually, I got used to the muffled sounds, but it is far from ideal.


Minor Spoiler Alert:
Tom Robbins develops interesting, believable characters and amusing situations in Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas, my first Robbins read, and he has a knack for churning out unexpectedly clever metaphors. I love the second person narration. But, about 3/4 of the way through the book, he uses the characters as mouthpieces to lecture on ridiculous theories of aliens and ancient civilization. This dialogue seemed forced, and my interest in the book waned, but I have stuck with it.

Simply one of the best audio book performances ever!

Barry Bostwick gives a brilliant performance in this hilarious book where everything goes comically wrong for our heroine...or does it?

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wonderful narration

great story, great narrator! very highly recommended! quirky weirdness and psychedelia abound! definitely going to look for more narrated by this guy too!

Not Robbins best but still not bad

Lol Robbins is always entertaining. This isn't mt favorite work of his but someone as talented as him still achieves even when he misses.

A lark of an adventure

Delivered as only Tom Robbins can.
Delightful, playful, saucy and deep.
Well-performed.
The descriptive and artful use of language by Tom Robbins is unsurpassed.

Good read--not a great read

This book, like other Tom Robbin books I've read, has a character that does most of the talking, expounding as if he/she is absolutely the only possessor of a deep understanding of some form of unusual facet of life or nature. I like the premise of this book but not the delivery so much. I believe if Tom Robbins used action instead of soliloquies I'd say "great book!"

Loved every minute.

the narrator is fantastic the sound quality is excellent and loved every minute of the story.

My favorite fusion

For me Tom Robbins is unraveled with creativity and hits the spot perfectly by blending cultural particulars, spirituality, mysticism, humor in a sexy intriguing blessing