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Small Comforts: More Comments and Comic Pieces
28Mar2008 Filed under: comfort gear Author: admin
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From Publishers Weekly
A writer for the Anchorage Daily News and a commentator on Alaska and National Public Radio, Bodett has two styles. He is a would-be humorist who evidently sees himself as a sort of sub-Arctic Andy Rooney, offering remarks on such topics as the perversity of mechanical devices, signs that order rational human beings not to do things they wouldn’t think of doing and orphaned shopping carts that appear virtually anywhere. In these pieces, he is not especially original and only occasionally draws a chuckle of recognition. Then there is the sentimental observer of people and places. Bodett is genuinely touching when he describes his infant son and the joys of being a father, a boy waiting for his first school bus ride and the beauties of Alaska.
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03月 28th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
By Erika Mitchell (E. Calais, VT USA)
This book is a collection of short essays by audiocolumnist Tom Bodett. The essays range from tools and how to use them, to fathering and environmentalism. Some are humorous, others intended in a more serious vein. The essays were originally written in the late 1980s, so a few of them are dated by now, but others are timeless.
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03月 28th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
By A Customer
This is one of those books I buy for friends all over the world with instructions: If you want to have a riotous laugh, read Tom Bodett’s stories. He is at once poignant and hilarious.
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03月 28th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
By E.S.K. “baddyo” (Defiance, Missouri)
After being introduced to Tom Bodett’s work through the Norman Tuttle book, I looked forward to another set of his stories. I think I picked the wrong volume. Small Comforts was a big disappointment. I understand that it was a series of essays, but I still looked for, and found no consistency from one to the other. With few exceptions, these essays were not interesting nor enlightening. If you’ve never read Tom Bodett, I suggest you start with a different book. I’ll give him another shot, but he’s on thin ice with this one.