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Good Poems for Hard Times
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2006
Buy one for yourself and one for a friend
You will be pleased to have this book in your collection of "keepers"! It will make you laugh, cry, and delight in the wonderfully creative use of the English language and the poetic form. If you forgot that poetry can be moving and delightful, you will really ...
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English Majors: A Comedy Collection for the Highly Literate (Prairie Home Companion)
HighBridge Company, 2008
Garrison Keillor at his best
The best of Garrison Keillor and his group. If you enjoy Prarie Home Companion, you'll love this.
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Good Poems
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2003
Pretty Good Poems selected by a really good writer.
America has no equivalent to Japan's Living National Treasures, those artisans and craftspeople whose work is considered an integral part of Japanese culture. But perhaps we should, and we would find no better person to head the list than Garrison Keillor. That he ...
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Winter: Stories from the Collection News from Lake Wobegon
Garrison Keillor
Highbridge Audio, 1997
Wide Appeal
Garrison Keillor writes poignant and often funny stories about small-town, Midwestern life. His works have often been compared to those of Mark Twain, and I can give no greater praise than that, except to say that you need not be a Christian to enjoy his stories about ...
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Pretty Good Joke Book 4th edition
Garrison Keillor
Highbridge Audio, 2005
good book
It's nice to be able to give a joke book to my dad that he can safely read to the grandchildren. Thanks!
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New and Not Bad Pretty Good Jokes (Prairie Home Companion)
Garrison Keillor
Highbridge Audio, 2005
Good Fun
The Prarie Home Companion's annual joke show is always a treat. Paperback or CD - the whole family can take the edge off with many good laughs (and groans).
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Never Better (Prairie Home Companion)
Garrison Keillor
HighBridge Company, 2007
Garrison -- Never Get Old!
Garrison Keillor -- NEVER BETTER -- is very entertaining and keeps you smiling for the entire CD.
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Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon (Lake Wobegon Novels)
Garrison Keillor
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2008
Staying trapped or floating away
Barbara Peterson is trying to organize her mother's funeral, defeat alcoholism and escape from Lake Wobegon. Farce and tragedy mix.
Lake Wobegon is a stultifying, puritanical, narrow-minded place, but there is nostalgia for its small-town middle-American virtues. ...
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Humor: Stories from the Collection More News from Lake Wobegon
Garrison Keillor
Highbridge Audio, 1998
Funny and then soothing
I love to give these collections of monologues to folks who are experiencing a long recovery from surgery or undergoing medical treatment. The monologues are funny to listen to, and after they have listened to them a time or two, just hearing Garrison Keillor's ...
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Liberty: A Lake Wobegon Novel (Lake Wobegon Novels)
Garrison Keillor
Viking Adult, 2008
Vintage Keillor
Reviewers here are so critical!
Yes, this is a little darker than Pontoon, but with a real gift of character development and K's signature manner of juxtaposing being good with being happy. The denoument is beautiful and heart-warming.
Garrison Keillor is a ...
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Lake Wobegon USA
Garrison Keillor
Highbridge Audio, 1993
Full of Hearty Laughs and Poignant Moments
If you're not familliar with Garrison Keillor's stories of small-town, Midwestern life, check to see when his program is aired on your local NPR station. His radio program (called A Prarie Home Companion) is full of esoteric music, old fashioned comic sketches, and ...
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Spring Stories from the Collection News from Lake Wobegon
Garrison Keillor
Highbridge Audio, 1998
Lake Wobegon springs wonderfully
Clarence Bunsen has bad (i.e. extremely funny) day, involving static, cramped hand and fear of death, ending with his leaping from a tree to frighten some children and restoring his equilibrium. Only GK could combine all those elements in one of the seasonal CDs ...
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A Prairie Home Companion: 25th Anniversary Collection
Highbridge Audio, 1999
Purchased as a gift for Christmas
Not only did this collection arrive ahead of predicted time (as a Christmas surprise), but the content has been savoured and appreciated so much by the recipient. The dialogue is excellent and the leads to further recommendations by Garrison Keillor were very good - ...
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Summer: Stories from the Collection News from Lake Wobegon
Garrison Keillor
Highbridge Audio, 1997
Summer classics from Lake Wobegon
Amongst the wonderful "News from Lake Wobegon" collections, this stands high as a personal favourite. Apart from the classic "Lving Flag" and "Tomato Butt", "The Tollefson Boy goes to College" and "Mrs Berge and the Schubert Carillon Piano" [with brilliant ...
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News from Lake Wobegon
Garrison Keillor
Highbridge Audio, 1991
Some of the Best Lake Wobegon monologues - all right here!
The 4 cassettes are titled "Summer", "Fall", "Winter" and "Spring". All have very funny stories on them and are worth the listen many times over. But the absolute best of the 4 tapes, and the biggest reason anyone should buy this collection, is the "Fall" stories. ...
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