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This was a great book until the very end. I was reading along and enjoying the characters and the escapades of the Lake Wobegon crowd as they tried to celebrate the life of Evelyn. The ceremony at the lakeshore had me laughing out loud with the craziness. However, suddenly, I felt as though I ran face-first into a wall. Everything stopped as Barbara got in her car and left Lake Wobegon for... Columbus, Georgia? Thinking she can find a better life there rather than in her hometown. End of story. I literally sat staring at my Kindle in a confused state at the amazement of how this book went from great to... dull in a matter of about seven pages.

Still, I liked the book and would recommend it for fans of Keillor.


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Pontoon A Novel of Lake Wobegon Lake Wobegon Novels Garrison Keillor 9780670063567 Books Reviews

I saw these words written on a gold shield on the back of the dust jacket of this book. It means "We Are Who We Are" and is the motto of the town of Lake Wobegon.

That's perfect for this book. The small town folks are who they are and seem no worse for it.

If you grew up Lutheran in a small town in the Midwest, as I did, the material is wonderful! It brings back so many memories of my home town although we didn't have a lake.

I feel sorry for the readers who don't understand Keillor's sense of humor. It's good for what ails you---or is that in an ad for one of the products he advertises on A Prairie Home Companion? Read it and brighten up your day!
Barbara Peterson is trying to organize her mother's funeral, defeat alcoholism and escape from Lake Wobegon. Farce and tragedy mix.
Lake Wobegon is a stultifying, puritanical, narrow-minded place, but there is nostalgia for its small-town middle-American virtues. Those who leave it, for California, New York or London, are liable to lose their solid Lake Wobegon characters and become flamboyant eccentrics or depressed losers. Barbara Peterson's central conflict is about leaving or staying. This conflict lurks in the background while Keillor manipulates his marionettes to form farcical events or arbitrary tragedies.
I thoroughly enjoyed this entertaining book, although Keillor evidently has trouble constructing a plot, and resorts to bumping off characters or flipping them in and out of mental illness.
If you're a big Garrison Keillor fan you might rate it higher because it will be familiar in many ways. Portions were truly good but some were silly and some just off the wall. The first part where Evelyn dies and the effect on the community was good enough for me to want to find out what is next but some of the twists and turns let me put it down and go elsewhere for amusement. But I did return to read till the end.
Garrison was unusually long-winded in writing this one. It took me a while to decide it was worth wading through all the depressing "look at me - I've wasted my life" garbage to get to the point of the story. When it takes him 30+ pages to reach his first joke, I could tell he was in a foul mood when he wrote this one. Barely worth the time & effort.
An amazing writer, amazing mind. Can't imagine anyone more articulate, more imaginative. But the story doesn't seem to really go anywhere... It's all back-story. After awhile, you want the thick profusion of background details to filter down to something, and that never seems to happen. At least, it hadn't happened by the third time I gave up on the book. In the end, I wonder if Lake Woebegon is the right place for fresh fiction, already populated by a cast of semi-cartoon characters developed over forty-some years of monologues. You're impressed, but after while you're ready for the skinny kid with the mandolin.
This book contains a two chapter climactic sequence that had me laughing out loud on an airplane in uncontrollable guffaws. It may be the funniest sequence I have ever read, and as is usual for a Keillor offering, descriptions of universal life experiences are defined in the humor. Much of the early chapters, which have their own moments, set up the uproarious climax. Well worth the read!
I rated Pontoon a 2 because I was expecting a great deal of humor.
Short on humor and very LONG on sad, down content.
Do not recommend unless you enjoy sad, downer content.
I'm going to give my copy away. So disappointed. (
This was a great book until the very end. I was reading along and enjoying the characters and the escapades of the Lake Wobegon crowd as they tried to celebrate the life of Evelyn. The ceremony at the lakeshore had me laughing out loud with the craziness. However, suddenly, I felt as though I ran face-first into a wall. Everything stopped as Barbara got in her car and left Lake Wobegon for... Columbus, Georgia? Thinking she can find a better life there rather than in her hometown. End of story. I literally sat staring at my in a confused state at the amazement of how this book went from great to... dull in a matter of about seven pages.

Still, I liked the book and would recommend it for fans of Keillor.