Lake Wobegon Days
by Garrison Keillor
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Author: Garrison KeillorIllustrator: Mike Lynch
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1990-04-01
ISBN: 0140131612
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Book Review: Lake Woebegon Days
Summary: 5 Stars
After reading two reviews which were not as wonderful as I thought they should be, I decided to write my opinion of this book. I've read it twice since it came out some years ago, and it has been my favorite book of all time! I too have been a regular listener to Keillor's radio show.
The thing about the book is this: the first 60 pages, I think, set the stage for this book - it gives the history of Lake Woebogon and tells about the descendents of our favorite charactersl Thovaldsens, Bunsens, Diemers, and many others are traced back to their ancestors. Since I was not yet fully acquainted with these families, I found that part of the book rather boring, but now I believe I will re-read those chapters with a new knowledge of the family quirks and traits. As soon as I hit the chapter on "Protestant", which I was reading in the bathtub, I nearly drowned from laughing so hard. From then to the very last word, I could not wait to hurry home from work and cram as much reading as possible into the time until I needed to fix dinner for my family. I just loved the book! I found myself loaning the book then to every friend who had a delicious sense of humor. I picked up every copy of the book at a half-price bookstore to loan to others. Books like this must be shared - they lift the spirits of people and take them out of their work-a-day stressful lives.
Since then I have read every Keillor book I could get my hands on and listened to every CD or tape he has made. Incidentally, another big favorite of mine is The Sandy Bottom Orchestra, an
absolutely delightful book written by Keillor and Jenny Lind Nillson.
I just cannot recommend Lake Woebegon Days enough.
Summary of Lake Wobegon Days
?Lake Wobegon Days is about the way our beliefs, desires and fears tail off into abstractions--and get renewed from time to time. . . this book, unfolding Mr. Keillor's full design, is a genuine work of American history.? —The New York Times
?A comic anatomy of what is small and ordinary and therefore potentially profound and universal in American life?Keillor?s strength as a writer is to make the ordinary extraordinary.? —Chicago Tribune
?Keillor?s laughs come dear, not cheap, emerging from shared virtue and good character, from reassuring us of our neighborliness and strength?.His true subject is how daily life is shot with grace. Keillor writes a prose that can be turned to laughter, to tears?to compassion or satire, to a hundred effects. He is a brilliant parodist.? —San Francisco Chronicle
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