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“I’m happy to go to the opera, but I should like to be allowed to wear steel-toed boots with my evening suit. I like to read Harper’s with a chaser of Varmint Hunter Magazine. Maybe that’s why I enjoy a good show under canvas. Here we sit, brain-deep in arts and culture, but we’re also just people hanging out in a tent, some of us wearing logging boots, a few of us wearing Birkenstocks, but best of all we’re breathing free fresh air filled with music.”
From Scandihoovian Spanglish to snickering chickens, New York Times best-selling author and humorist Michael Perry navigates a wide range of topics in this collection of brief essays drawn from his weekly appearances on the nationally syndicated Tent Show Radio program. Fatherhood, dumpster therapy, dangerous wedding rings, Christmas trees, used cars, why you should have bacon in your stock portfolio, loggers in clogs - whatever the subject, Perry has a rare ability to touch both the funny bone and the heart.
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5 out of 5 stars
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excellent book
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 102
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What can we learn about life, love, and artillery from an 82-year-old man whose favorite hobby is firing his homemade cannons? Visit by visit - often with his young daughters in tow - author Michael Perry is about to find out. Toiling in a shop Perry describes as "an antique store stocked by Rube Goldberg, curated by Hunter Thompson, and rearranged by a small earthquake," Tom Hartwig makes gag shovel handles, parts for quarter-million-dollar farm equipment, and - now and then - batches of potentially "extralegal" explosives.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I've listened to it four times!
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Forty Acres Deep
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When farmer Harold wakes to find his wife dead beside him in bed and snow threatening to crush the last life from his dwindling farm, he takes drastic steps toward a fresh start. Set in a world of stark wintry beauty, Forty Acres Deep is the brief, unrelenting tale of one person's attempt to make sense of a world he no longer recognizes while pitilessly calling himself into account. Seamed with grim humor and earthy revelations, it is an unforgiving story...and yet leaves open the idea that we might surrender to hope.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Authentic story, authentic voice
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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"The journey began on a gurney", writes Michael Perry, describing the debilitating kidney stone that led him to discover the essays of Michel de Montaigne. Reading the philosopher in a manner he equates to chickens pecking at scraps - including those eye-blinking moments when the bird gobbles something too big to swallow - Perry attempts to learn what he can (good and bad) about himself as compared to a long-dead French nobleman who began speaking Latin at the age of two.
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 83
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5 out of 5 stars
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General5 out of 5 stars 23
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 20
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 20
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5 out of 5 stars
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- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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5 out of 5 stars
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A little slow, but it is a small town world....
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Everything I needed!!
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5 out of 5 stars
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A wonderful escape!
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hidden America
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love it... Love her... Check out everything!!!
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Lake Wobegon Days
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5 out of 5 stars
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A great shot of Garrison Keillor...
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