Garrison Keillor

Liberty: A Novel of Lake Wobegon (Lake Wobegon Novels)
$15.00
What can you say about a book that drones on and on and never comes to end. I enjoy listening to novels in the car and this one made me want to turn on AM talk radio...no emotion, no excitement, just endless blather. Save your money or use it before bed for a gigantic sleeping pill!

Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon (Lake Wobegon Novels)
$14.00
I purchased the cd so I could listen to the story as I drove along to work and back - my how quickly the time passed! I laughed out loud in my car on many occasions - I bet the other drivers thought I was nuts! Garrison Keillor is always excellent and this is no acception!

A Christmas Blizzard
$21.95
Prose tart plum pudding for anyone who's entertained by Marx Bros, Red Green, soupy Sales & Monty Python. "A Christmas Blizzard" begins like most of the gluttony of Christmas novels which flood the holiday market like flies to an outhouse. but inspiration, angelic hill-side visits, the fatted goose, and peace on earth is as limited in this UNIQUE tale as oleo in French pastry.

The dust cover being printed on the inside fly should have been a sign, and sentence-length chapter titles (unused since the 1920s) should have raised an awareness flag, and near page-length run-on sentences was a signal while they resembled a sophomoric prose assignment from a writing class taught by the football coach (Mr. Scratch) and everyone knows any serious publishing editor would not have allowed million-word sentences, and when the dust of Christmas intimacy expectations fell, the book became comically F-U-N.

Metamorphose? From what? Oz & Em, "The shack," "Ghostbusters," Capt. Jack Sparrow...?
Dickens, you say? Everyone's doing "A Christmas Carol" rewrites. For the film masterpiece see "A Christmas Carol [theatrical release]" with Carrey. Book is topped by R.P.Evans' "The Christmas List" (see my reviews). NO, "A Christmas Blizzard" is a genre all its own, due to, vividly described projectile vomit-diarrhea combo in the snow, female NRAer who had a breast removed since it got in the way of her rifle, Ft. Wayne's alcoholic Elaine (hey, that's my NE Indiana area), tongue-frozen-to-pump-handle-cold-weather-psychosis, peeing in drifts through a -80 wind chill, Uncle Earl with a transplant-gone-bad sent home carrying a baggie of internal organs yet attached abdominally, democrats and Republicans insulted bipartisanally, 4xPrime (don't ask), and what does that have to do with Christmas cheer and ghosts?

I'm still recovering from two naked fat men blizzard-bound in a bus with 15 beautiful evangelistic crusaders.

LAMPOONERY SPOOF FUN if you're not seeking nativity inspiration for a few hours.

A Prairie Home Companion With Garrison Keillor (30th Anniversary Season Celebration)
$19.98
We have enjoyed this DVD many times. It gives a good insite to the radio broadcast media, plus