The Planets

by Jennifer Finney Boylan and James Boylan

Book Overview

Set in Centralia, Pennsylvania, the mining town that has been burning for over 20 years and is the home to a bizarre set of characters. Lovestruck Edith Schmertz takes an ill-fated leap out of an... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067172715X
• ISBN13: 9780671727154
• Release Date: April 1991
• Publisher: Poseidon Press
• Length: 265 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Worth reading again and again

Unbelievably entertaining. I recommend this to any friend with a joy for tongue-in-cheek humor. I enjoyed the absurd coincidences and irreverent look at the things we wll take too seriously. I've read it half a dozen times and will read it again when I need to put things back in perspective.

The funniest thing I ever read.

I have given this book to a number of friends and have learned that those who can laugh at the darker side of life love this book. Find it. Keep it. Share it.

A Farce Among Farces

Essentially everybody is having the kind of time that the Cary Grant character has in the movie "Bringing Up Baby," and it's all happening at the same time, and all tightly interrelated, yet it's not at all confusing. Somehow through all the silliness, real feelings are expressed and real "philosophies of life" interact. It's very funny and very clever.

read it 5 times and laugh just as hard each time

I picked this book up because the author shared the same last name and was curious as to whether a Boylan could actually write. Only Thurber has made me laugh this hard. I have read it at least 5 times and laugh just as much each time.

Laugh Out Loud Funny

This novel grabs your funny bone and doesn't let go even when you cry, "Uncle!" The wildest assortment of incredibly eccentric everyday people you will ever meet. Set in Philadelphia and Centralia, Pennsylvania, neither city has been funnier. I highly recommend this book