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Title: Home From the Vinyl Cafe by Stuart Mclean ISBN: 0-14-027743-9 Publisher: Penguin Putnam~trade Format: Paperback |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A great diversion from ...
Comment: ... a very ordinary family. Now, I don't mean ordinary in the boring sense of the term, quite the contrary. This is a collection of short stories spanning a year in the lives of a middle-class family. Everyone will be able to recognize themselves or others in these people to whom funny things tend to happen.
A quick read that will have you smiling (and giggling) on the bus.
You won't regret picking it up, and will look for McLean's other collections of stories about this wonderful family upon completing it.
Rating: 4
Summary: Stuart McLean is *the* Canadian Humourist...
Comment: In "Home from the Vinyl Cafe," Stuart McLean gives us a rousing journey of one year in the life of Dave, Morley, Sam and Stephanie. From one Christmas to the next, we step in an check up on the family a few times each season, with such fantastic stories as "Dave Cooks the Turkey," and "School Days." Rousing, amusing and touching in turn, McLean's tales are as much a joy to read as they are to listen to.
Now, if you have no idea who I'm talking about, you're in for a real treat. Stuart McLean is a humourist who speaks on the radio twice a week with his wonderful Canadian prose short narratives, which always manage to make me laugh out loud. I've bought a few of his tape collections so I can listen to them whenever I'd like; he's that good. You follow the lives of this small family through their idiosyncratic - and wonderfully Canadian - trials and laughs throughout this book.
Stephen Leacock award winner McLean has put together a wonderful collection here, and if you can get a copy, do.
It is important to note that this book is not out of print, it is merely published in Canada. You could get it through a Canadian source with no troubles.
Rating: 5
Summary: An hilarious accounting of a year in the life...
Comment: McLean's book, 'Home from the Vinyl Cafe,' is a hoot from start to finish. It's a sorry day in Canada that this title is now out of print, it really is. McLean's a national treasure of humour.
If you do manage to find this title (I've got my fingers crossed for you), then beware - do not read this while on public transport or eating out. You'll be laughing out loud, long and hard, from the get-go.
The opening sequence is one of the funniest pieces of prose I've read in a long time; you will never look at Christmas dinner in the same light again.
McLean has an easy-going, conversational writing style that engages the reader immediately - he draws you in as a willing voyeur, anticipating the next hilarious calamity to strike the book's protagonist.
If you live in the north climes where it gets cold at night, the final sequence in the book will harken back your days of daring... ever stick your tongue to cold metal? Not so funny for the poor soul who dares such trickery, hilarious for those who're watching.
This book gets a big thumbs up - it's not a challenging read, but it's tremendous fun nonetheless!
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Title: Stories from the Vinyl Cafe by Stuart McLean ISBN: 0670864765 Publisher: Viking Pub. Date: 1995 |
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Title: The Vinyl Cafe Unplugged by Stuart McLean ISBN: 0670896535 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $32.99 |
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Title: Morningside World of Stuart Mclean by Stuart Mclean ISBN: 0140260668 Publisher: Penguin Putnam~trade |
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Title: Welcome home: Travels in smalltown Canada by Stuart McLean ISBN: 0670840696 Publisher: Viking Pub. Date: 1992 |
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Title: The South Beach Diet: The Delicious, Doctor-Designed, Foolproof Plan for Fast and Healthy Weight Loss by Arthur Agatston ISBN: 1579546463 Publisher: Rodale Books Pub. Date: 05 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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