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From: marks@yogi.DEC
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Subject: Another View of Lake Wobegon Days
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Date: Tue, 26-Nov-85 10:38:57 EST
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Don't know whether I have a warped mind or what, but no one seems to
have mentioned that Lake Wobegon Days (the book by GK) is hysterically
funny.  Only GK could describe a poor teenage kid on a mercy mission
in a blizzard who is confronted by a bear, gets so scared he messes his
pants on the spot, goes into a virtual state of shock until finally
rescued by his friends, so that tears are rolling down your face by the
time you have finished reading the vignette.

Truly, the book can be tedious; this is the style GK is famous for.  The
book rambles, its descriptions are endless (the writing fits the style --
he writes the way he talks) -- but it is very, very funny.  It is presented
in a totally deadpan, serio-tragic way.  On one level, I guess it is
depressing, and that's what many people have picked up on.  But warped or
not, and although the book is slow reading, I think it's one of the
funniest books I have read in a long time.  I wonder if anyone else felt
this way.

R.M.