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Title: Lake Wobegon Days by Garrison Keillor ISBN: 0140131612 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67
Rating: 2
Summary: Not as good as its reputation
Comment: This book came highly recommended but I found it wanting. While reading this collection of related stories about small town life in the midwest, I did manage to find a few gems. These few were good because they provided me with insight on real people without judging them. However, it seems that in the vast majority of the tales, Mr Keillor is looking down his nose at the participants. Often it seems Mr Keillor is making fun of their idiosyncrasies by exaggerating them. Sometimes, the book was even unpleasant to read because the characters were defenseless against Mr Keillor's unrelenting assault. I can not recommend this book but would urge readers who want a good look at small town/country life and the real people that live there to check out James Herriot. It is Yorkshire, England and not midwestern US but the insight's of the writing are unbeatable.
Rating: 4
Summary: Charming, small-town storytelling
Comment: I hope to one day live in Lake Wobegon. It seems to be just the sort of backwards, yokel, land-that-time-forgot sort of place that I would feel right at home in.
Keillor's journey through Lake Wobegon is warm, nostalgic, funny, and poignant. The characters are well-crafted -- sometimes lovable, sometimes zany, sometimes despicable, always believable and real.
Don't appraoch this book looking for a deep, moving plot. Approach it as a tour through a quaint town -- a look at its history, pride, culture, and even those bits that are swept under the rug. Read it, and it'll grow on you.
Rating: 5
Summary: Soulful
Comment: If you've ever gone for a late afternoon walk in a small town anywhere in America and have looked up and had your breath taken away by the wonder of a full moon hanging there in the quiet light like a ghostly, faded postage stamp, if you've ever shopped in a store that has a hand painted sign above its door, where they make their own bread and slice their own meat, or if you've ever felt that the quiet, shady moment you're inhabiting could almost explode with possibilities, then you might want to check out Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon Days.
This is a truly brilliant book that celebrates the quirks and idiosyncrasies of small town American. Part town history, part family remembrance, Lake Wobegon is imbued with a warm, sly humor that picks at the silliness and the earnestness that are woven so tightly together in small town American life.
Although I found this book immensely entertaining, and times quite moving, I should mention it took me about three months to read. Keillor's immensely appealing voice, story-telling ability and sense of humor kept me at all times very interested, but there isn't really a plot to speak of. I had to keep other books going on the side to give me my plot fix. This was the only aspect of the book that I thought might put off readers otherwise disposed to read the book and enjoy it. But don't let this deter you. Believe me, the book is definitely worth whatever time you take to read it.
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Title: Leaving Home by Garrison Keillor ISBN: 0140131604 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 1992 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Lake Wobegon Summer 1956 by Garrison Keillor ISBN: 0142000930 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 27 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Wobegon Boy by Garrison Keillor ISBN: 0140274782 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Happy to Be Here by Garrison Keillor ISBN: 0140131825 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 1990 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Book of Guys: Stories by Garrison Keillor ISBN: 0140233725 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 1994 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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