A delightful mini
vacation for your brain!
Non Fiction – Comedy- Travel
256 pages
First Published 2007
Bestselling author and CBS correspondent for News Sunday Morning, Bill Geist, shares his favorite –odd, unforgettable and usually funny - experiences and memories from small town America.
Bill seems like the kind of guy
you’d want to have over for dinner or a Bar-b-que, provided he brought the
food, because apparently he knows where to get the good stuff( don’t worry
though Bill my boy I’d be willing to spring for the beer , the good stuff too *
insert eye wink here* to accompany your contributions) and stories.
Bill had me from the authors note
on through till the end. Taking me on a
tour of places I probably would never visit physically, he found the heart of
the people he spoke with and the places he visited. From the 92-year-old flying paper boy to the
groundhog sucking business (which totally brought to mind Wallace and Grommit:
The Curse of the Were-Rabbit thus rendering everyone into Claymation form) to
the cow photographer and her arsenal of unusual beauty products you could share
not only in Bill’s humor, but his connection to them.
I particularly enjoyed the
Celebration Town, Flamingo story (that is the nondestructive kind of vandalism
I can appreciate). Also, I have never
seen a live demolition derby or school bus race, but Dude sign me up, because
that sounds awesome! Nascar has nothing
on them.
I would say if you are need a
vacation from your everyday life or have to believe there is somewhere weirder
than where you live curl up with Bill for the afternoon and let him take you on
an unusual sort of vacation!
ISBN 0767922735 (ISBN13: 9780767922739)
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