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Title: Lake Wobegon USA by Garrison Keillor ISBN: 1-56511-008-0 Publisher: HighBridge Company Pub. Date: September, 1993 Format: Audio CD Volumes: 4 List Price(USD): $36.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Woe is Right
Comment: An old, tired theme. That is what this compilation delivers, and delivers and delivers.
While Mr. Keillor's show was moderately entertaining 15 years ago, it has not kept pace with time. Thus, the stories seem to be replayed on an old, stuck phonographic record, replayed over and over.
If you are a big time Keillor fan, you will probably find this work to be an enjoyable distraction while mixing your Metamucal. However, for anyone who can still think clearly, all these staid stories will just make you run for the can.
Rating: 4
Summary: Great, just great.
Comment: This is one of the best works of Mr. Keillor and I read them all. Please keep writing it.
Rating: 5
Summary: Wanderlust and Other Longings
Comment: Lake Wobegon, U.S.A. is my favorite of all the Prairie Home Companion series. Every performance in this collection was recorded on tour around the country, providing the inevitable reminders of why life outside Lake Wobegon provides more opportunities for instant gratification than one experiences back home. Nowhere has Garrison Keillor more poignantly framed the everyday longings that tug at the secret soul.
The four tapes are entitled Fertility, Patience, Youth and Rhubarb. The tales are about many things, including "the luxury of rhubarb pie, the perils of prophecy, a miserable Thanksgiving, Florian and Myrtle's thrifty vacation, [and] the vapor lights of Our Lady of Perpetual Responsibility."
My personal favorite is the story called Rhubarb, on the tape of the same name. It deftly weaves together Dorothy's rhubarb pie down at the Chatterbox Cafe and Pastor Inqvist's Christmas Eve sermon. How did Mr. Keillor come up with such a funny and moving story out of the longings of stalwart Lake Wobegon denizens for both Christmas services, and rhubarb pie? It could only happen in the place where "all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average." People there always grow up with strong roots, but vaguely (and forever) suspect that they could have done more in life...
You have to hear it for yourself to get it. I always start out laughing, and weep at the end. Go figure. I wish I could do something in this world as well as Mr. Keillor tells a story.
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Title: More News from Lake Wobegon by Garrison Keillor ISBN: 0942110374 Publisher: HighBridge Company Pub. Date: May, 1992 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
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Title: A Prairie Home Companion: 25th Anniversary Collection by Garrison Keillor ISBN: 156511325X Publisher: HighBridge Company Pub. Date: July, 1999 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Gospel Birds by Garrison Keillor ISBN: 1565110102 Publisher: HighBridge Company Pub. Date: June, 1993 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: News from Lake Wobegon by Garrison Keillor ISBN: 0942110382 Publisher: HighBridge Company Pub. Date: September, 1992 List Price(USD): $36.95 |
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Title: Life These Days: Stories from Lake Wobegon by Garrison Keillor ISBN: 1565112938 Publisher: HighBridge Company Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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