Ring Lardner's You know me Al: The comic strip adventures of Jack Keefe (A Harvest book) Review

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Ring Lardner's You know me Al: The comic strip adventures of Jack Keefe (A Harvest book) ReviewThe book was sent to me promptly and in good condition.
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The Best Short Stories of Ring Lardner Review

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The Best Short Stories of Ring Lardner ReviewLardner's voice is distinctive, and it cuts through all the noise in your life until all you hear are his characters speaking, telling their stories as best they know how, their dialect as real and immediate as it was when these stories were first written. Imagine Dorothy Parker covering the World Series, Oscar Wilde at a bridge club in suburbia, Dave Barry on the slow train from Chicago to New York. The only difference is in Lardner's restraint: his characters, when ridiculous, never fail to remind that to laugh at them is to laugh at ourselves as well, a fact which can be comforting and disconcerting at the same time.
Best of the collection: "Alibi Ike," "Liberty Hall," "There Are Smiles," "The Anniversary."The Best Short Stories of Ring Lardner Overview

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Ring: A Biography of Ring Lardner Review

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Ring: A Biography of Ring Lardner ReviewYardley remains one of the best critics of American literature around, and this book does Ring justice. You may enjoy this book if you're interested in the period (America from the teens to the 30s), but it's mostly for those who have read Lardner's fiction and nonfiction and want to know more. I'd recommend you read it alongside the memoir written by his son Ring, Jr: The Lardners: A Family Remembered. Both books are wonderful, entertaining tributes to a great American writer.Ring: A Biography of Ring Lardner Overview

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Ring Lardner: Selected Stories (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) Review

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Ring Lardner: Selected Stories (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) ReviewI absolutely love Ring Lardner. Some of his classics such as "Alibi Ike" and "Champion" are included in this volume. Champion is a frightening portrait of a brutal, totally amoral heavyweight champ who makes Mike Tyson look like a choir boy. The character is absolutely chilling and stands in sharp contrast to the many humorous characters Lardner has created. The beauty of his more humorous creations is that they bring a chuckle but are not so outlandish as be unreal. What is funny is that we all probably know people who are just like those satirized by Lardner. My criticism of this collection is that it omits my favorite Lardner story: "Mr. & Mrs. Fixit." We all know people like those lampooned in that story and it's too bad it's missing. My suggestion is to buy a collection that omits the short novel "You Know Mw Al" and buy one with a larger selection of shorter stories and then buy "You Know Me Al" separately. However, if you do buy this, you will still most certainly get your money's worth.Ring Lardner: Selected Stories (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) Overview

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Ring Around the Bases: The Complete Baseball Stories of Ring Lardner Review

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Ring Around the Bases: The Complete Baseball Stories of Ring Lardner ReviewNobody wrote more good baseball stories than Ring Lardner, nor has anybody written better ones. This book brings them all together in one volume for the first time.
It begins with the "You Know Me Al" stories, consisting of letters from Jack Keefe to his friend Al. More than two-hundred pages are devoted to these, which is a bit of a problem; after the first fifty, Lardner has established that Jack is a blowhard with no spine and isn't very bright, and the theme starts to pall. The stories must have worked much better published individually or in groups of a few.
The other stories are unrelieved successes, however. It would be, I think, going too far to say that Lardner uses baseball as a metaphor for life, but baseball is just the setting that he uses to show us things about his characters, and about human nature.
The writing is superb, and the stories bear out the frequently-made observation about the excellence of Lardner's ear for vernacular American speech.
Very entertaining and highly recommended.Ring Around the Bases: The Complete Baseball Stories of Ring Lardner Overview

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The real dope Review

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The real dope ReviewThis is one of those books that was recommended for someone with my browsing history. I had never heard of the book nor the author. I have subsequently looked him up and found that this book is a continuation of a device Mr Lardner used in a previous title, that of a major league pitcher writing letters to his minor league buddy. The entire book is epistolary, and from the viewpoint of the protagonist. It starts on the troop transport taking the writer to France to fight in the trenches in WWI. The protagonist thinks quite highly of himself, having achieved success in professional sports, but he is really more of a country bumpkin forever falling prey to the gags of his troop mates. That is the double play of the title. This is a lightweight read and not for those who wish to gain insight into WWI. Because is uses the device of letters, the author uses spellings that are not quite right and some written shortcuts, so texters will get it easily. There is quite a lot of funny stories in these pages, including when they set him up with a "real queen" for his liberty, one Marie Antoinette, whose address is "O. D. Cologne." Lots of laughs and well worth the read if you like enjoy older titles. This book is available free, so you are not taking much of a chance by loading it onto your Kindle. I enjoyed it.The real dope Overview

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