Hi Rick, Hope you start to feel better soon.
My all time favorite author is Tom Robbins. If you want a funny, take a strange-trip, enlightening, contemplating, head spinning ride I recommend his books.
Another Roadside Attraction was his first. A story about kiddnapping the body of Jesus and other strange things.
Even Cowgirls get the Blues. A story of a woman with a huge thumb, so what better to do than hitchhike.
Still Life With Woodpecker. A tale about an outlaw and a princess. It also covers the contemplation of redheads and the camel cigarette pack.
Jitterbug Purfume, Skinny Legs and All, Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas, Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates and his new one that I have and am holding off reading for a while because I know it will be a few years for the next one to come out, is called Villa Incognito (I actually don't know if I can wait much longer to read it!)
Hope you get a chance to read some of his stuff and actually I hope you already have.
Peace and good health to you, Rustic
I would like also to add another favorite of mine from Edward Abbey- The Monkey Wrench Gang. Sure to please and hard to put down.