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Title: Love Me by Garrison Keillor ISBN: 0-670-03246-8 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: 18 August, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.09 (22 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Can't Understand Why Everyone Doesn't Love 'Love Me'
Comment: Reading these other 12 reviews, I am disappointed in the reaction to this brilliant book. Granted, if you're already a Keillor fan, you're in heaven as you read the lines and hear Garrison's voice insinuate the pauses and hesitations, the stuttering and comic inflections, that make his radio show a 25-year enduring icon of compassionate comedy.
His theme is a bit odd -- a young writer dreaming of one day joining the New Yorker fulfills that dream, only to be beset by the Mafia, a "can't live with it, can't live without it" marriage, and terminal writer's block. Within the story is another story, that of the protagonist as lonely hearts editor. The letters he receives, and the replies he sends, are hysterical, odd, and clever.
Don't overanalyze the humor and hyperscrutinize the plot. This is just plain funny stuff, with the occasional poignant and touching revelation about what it means to be a human wrestling with one's devil of an ego. It's vintage Keillor, and vintage fun.
Rating: 3
Summary: A Funny, Melancholy, Strange Book
Comment: I wanted to like "Love Me"...I even wanted to love it, as I have loved just about everything I've read of Keillor's up to now. But I found myself too confused by the shifts in tone and too puzzled about what it really was supposed to be all about to form any kind of definitive opinion. Is it a rumination on life, love and loss? A hilarious black comedy? A moderately-disguised autobiography? After finishing all 272 pages, I'm just not sure.
"Love Me" follows the misadventures of Larry Wyler, a writer from Minnesota who publishes a successful novel, leaves his wife and world behind, and answers the siren song of the big city...New York. He buys an apartment overlooking Central Park and goes to work at a topsy-turvy version of the New Yorker that seems mainly designed to skewer the raft of New Yorker insider books we've been flooded with over the past couple of decades.
Larry commits adultery, but doesn't seem to know why; he commits murder (sort of), but doesn't have to deal with any of the consequences; and in the end, we're left with....what? It didn't surprise me that when Larry imagined his funeral, he specified a reading from Ecclesiasties be included. I guess it takes one world-weary soul to know another.
Rating: 5
Summary: Better and Better
Comment: "Love Me" is a remarkable book. Keillor is honest, transparent, funny, and sadly wise. This may be heresy, but in this work, Keillor approaches Twain in his sense of laughing through the pain--and incidentally, educating the reader about The Meaning Of It All. If this book moves you, you might try "If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him."
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Title: Foul Matter by Martha Grimes ISBN: 067003259X Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: 18 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: The Amateur Marriage: A Novel by ANNE TYLER ISBN: 1400042070 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 06 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Pleasure of My Company: A Novel by Steve Martin ISBN: 0786869216 Publisher: Hyperion Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Mr. Paradise : A Novel by Elmore Leonard ISBN: 0060083956 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 13 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Happy to Be Here by Garrison Keillor ISBN: 0140131825 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: April, 1990 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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