News from Lake Wobegon

by Garrison Keillor

Book Overview

One of the best-selling spoken audio of all time, this is the original collection of Garrison Keillor monologues. Funny and touching, these 20 stories from original live broadcasts of A Prairie Home... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Audio CD
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0942110382
• ISBN13: 9780942110388
• Release Date: April 1990
• Publisher: HighBridge Audio
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 5.4"

Customer Reviews

One of the Better Lake Wobegons

This is a very good CD for family listening during a long road trip. The stories are quite good, clean, and appropriate for any age group.

Second copy

I wore out the tapes and had to buy the CDs. These stories never get old!

On time, good condition

The CD was sent quickly, arrived on time and was in great condition. Thanks!

My Favorite Lake Wobegon Set

I own 6 of these multi-CD sets of Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon stories and this is my favorite. His voice is strong and rich on these recordings. These are live broadcasts so there's a real audience to provide background chuckles that make me feel like I'm sitting around the fire listening with them. The segments are Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter. (Each one lasting about an hour.) They are comforting little stories that make me smile and relax me as I am drifting off to sleep. If you are a Lake Wobegon fan, you will enjoy this set very much.

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. "Fall" (which I also found listed separately, and have left a review there as well) contains the single funniest Lake Wobegon monologue, "Bruno the Fishing Dog." It also contains a funny take on Minnesota Thanksigivings, and a devastating 24-minute epic called The Royal Family, which I found to be well worth the trip.To me, Keillor-on-paper vs. Keillor-live is apples and oranges - they should be judged separately. If you do want to hear him, buy this collection--and the collection called "Gospel Birds", also a classic--and you'll be set for some time.