Helpful Score: 1
Dang. Prairie Home Companion is one of my favorite radio shows and News from Lake Wobegon my favorite segment. Plus, this book was a #1 bestseller -- so it's gotta be a great book, right? Well, not so much. I'm an avid reader who finishes a new book ever couple of days, but this took me more than two weeks to read! Not because it was too long at 420 pages, but because it was ... boring!
There is no plot, no characterization, and no continuity. This is nothing more than a series of Keillor's rambling Wobegon anecdotes strung together back to back for interminable pages. After a page or two discussing one Wobegon resident, Keillor skips to someone else entirely unrelated -- over and over again.
As a child of the 1950s I was expecting this book to paint a picture of a time gone by. And it does, in a way, but the paint brush is so small that reading the book is like death by a thousand strokes. I am so glad I have finally finished it so I can move on to something else! Not recommended.
There is no plot, no characterization, and no continuity. This is nothing more than a series of Keillor's rambling Wobegon anecdotes strung together back to back for interminable pages. After a page or two discussing one Wobegon resident, Keillor skips to someone else entirely unrelated -- over and over again.
As a child of the 1950s I was expecting this book to paint a picture of a time gone by. And it does, in a way, but the paint brush is so small that reading the book is like death by a thousand strokes. I am so glad I have finally finished it so I can move on to something else! Not recommended.
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