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Small Comforts: More Comments And Comic Pieces

3 reviews
Tom Bodett

Da Capo Press, 1988

Small Comforts
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.

Ed's Fruits and Vegetables (American Odyssey Vol 5)

1 review

Nova Audio Books, 1996

Buy all 5! You won't be sorry!
Do not buy this audio recording unless you get parts 1-4 and listen to them first. We love Tom Bodett, so much so that when we were in Alaska, we went to "the end of the road" aka Homer, just to see the place he writes about. I got the "Freefall of Webster Cummings"(the first tape) at the library along with 2 other volumns, not knowing that it was one huge story. We only had parts 1,2 and 5- ...

Old Fools and Young Hearts

1 review
Tom Bodett

Random House Audio, 1993

Mark Twain meets Northern Exposure
Tom Bodett's name should be Apple Pie. His stories are so heartwarming yet, at the same time, not the least bit cloying. Maybe the only thing better than reading a Tom Bodett story is to sit back and have him read it to us. There isn't a person out there who wouldn't like to hear about the salmon throwing contest or Ed's new age experience. We can all relate to these stories even if they ...

Norman Tuttle on the Last Frontier (Tom Bodett Adventure Series)

4 reviews
Tom Bodett

Laurel Leaf, 2006

A humorous look at the challenges of growing up
The first story in NORMAN TUTTLE ON THE LAST FRONTIER has Norman falling out of a fishing boat into icy Alaskan waters. "There is probably no good time to be in a situation like this," author Tom Bodett writes, "but being in this situation at age thirteen has got to be the worst of them. You're too old to cry and too young to swear, and you don't even have much of a life to go flashing past." ...

The Big Garage on Clear Shot: Growing Up, Growing Old, and Going Fishing at the End of the Road

1 review
Tom Bodett

William Morrow & Co, 1990

Amazing vignettes about people who never were
This is a collection of stories about the people Tom Bodett met in Homer, AK, reimagined as The End Of the Road, AK. The characters are composites, fine, and the stories ae no doubt apocryphal; but you'll laugh and cry and wince and mourn and rejoice as these fine folk live this thing we call life.

The Big Garage on Clear Shot

2 reviews
Tom Bodett

Random House Audio, 1991

One of Bodett's best!!
Tom Bodett is a master storyteller. His character development is deep and thoughtful. While humor is the "bread and butter", he is at his very best when telling a poigiant tale. These often bring a tear to the eye. One feels especially close to his characters, all of whom ended up at "the End of the Road" in Alaska. His wonderful voice and the complementary piano music of Johnny B. make ...

As Far As You Can Go Without A Passport: The View From The End Of The Road

3 reviews
Tom Bodett

Da Capo Press, 1986

Don't leave home without this valuable source
A passport is a really necessary item -- most of the time -- but as this book shows, you don't need one all the time. And, for certain places, a passport is not needed at all. But, how far can you go without one? This book gives you details on that and more. It will make your passport even more valuable, and, significantly, it will give you the lowdown on where you should go -- passport or ...

Small Comforts

1 review
Tom Bodett

Random House Audio, 1989

thanks TOM
I am not much of a writer but I am an avid reader. I thought this book hit the spot, like a warm mug of coco on a bitter Chicago eve(that is my best try at creative writing). It was trully refreshing, although some what dated, the 80s, I had a great time reading it. Every night before laying down to sleep for about a week I would lose my self in the funny and witty storys Tom writes about (I ...

Williwaw! (Yearling Books)

11 reviews
Tom Bodett

Yearling, 2000

Williwaw! Book Report was a Success!
Hello Parents, I was recently having a brief conversation with a friend, and I realized that many of us as parents are probably experiencing, and in some cases struggling with, the same issues related to assigned book reports for school. Issues like children procastinating to read the selected book, complete a written report, or prepare for oral report, etc. Last year, a serious reading ...

The Tom Bodett Value Collection: The End of the Road, the Last Decent Parking Place in North America, Those ...

4 reviews

Random House Audio, 2000

Very Enjoyable Series of Stories about Small Town Life
Tom Bodett narrates his own stories about fictional, colorful characters living in a small Alaskan town. The stories are simple and bring out humor and emotion. Bodett's trademark deadpan narration about the funny and unusual events that take place among the significant townspeople are so good, it almost makes a person want to pack up and head for Alaska to live with these folks. I ...

Better Part of the Road

1 review
Tom Bodett

Random House Audio, 1992

Amusing tales of Alaska read by the Author
Once more America's most distinctive humorist and storyteller invites us to spend a thoroughly entertaining visit with our friends at the End of the Road. The townspeople at the End of the Road survived the Alaska oil spill, but life has a few more upheavals in store. Old Angus Winslow's begun to worry about the memory lapses he's been having since he banged his head. But that hasn't stopped him ...

The End of the Road

10 reviews
Tom Bodett

William Morrow & Co, 1989

Barth roars out of the starting gate
When you pick the book up you think to yourself, "There's no way this is John Barth" after all after holding the book for several minutes, your muscles aren't aching at all from the weight. Heck the novel is almost pocket sized. Yes, kids, early on Barth was reasonable concise in length (not that I don't like his longer stuff), at least for his first two novels (I think his third was the ...

Last Decent Parking Place in North America

1 review
Tom Bodett

Random House Audio, 1991

Great style - great stories
I, of course, already appreciate Tom Bodett's story-telling ability but the stories themselves are so revealing and insightful to the characters who find themselves in Alaska. The story that keeps me coming back to this audio is "The Best Sauna Story" it had us laughing for hours.

No Place Like Home, Volume Four (Tom Bodett's American Odyssey)

1 review

Nova Audio Books, 1996

Part of a larger story arc
No Place Like Home is Volume 4 of Tom Bodett's Free Fall of Webster Cummings tale. By itself, it's nothing, a series of random and meaningless vignettes. If you've read (or listened to) The End of the Road and The Big Garage on Clear Shot, and then read (or listened to) the previous volumes in the series, or (better yet) the novel "The Free Fall of Webster Cummings," this is a welcome ...

Tom Bodett's American Odyssey (Volume Two): The Great Divide

Nova Audio Books, 1995

When attorney Marcus Glenwood resigns from his prestigious corporate law firm to retreat to the small town of Rocky Mount, North Carolina, and rebuild his life after a devastating personal tragedy, he has no idea that the biggest, most emotionally trying case of his entire career is about to fall into his backyard. It is a fragile and spiritually wounded Glenwood who first meets his distraught clients, Alma and Austin Hall. Their daughter, ...

The Free Fall of Webster Cummings

11 reviews
Tom Bodett

Hyperion Books, 1996

Wonderful!
I just finished reading this wonderful book and felt my heart warmed over. Tom Bodett's writing took me into his characters lives with such grace that they became like my own family. Funny,sweet and thought provoking. I am off to read more of Tom Bodett today!

Peach Picking Time, Volume 3 (Tom Bodett's American Odyssey)

1 review

Nova Audio Books, 1995

Six degrees of separation.
The characters that were introduced in the first volume and continued their journeys in the second volume begin to meet each other. Either knowingly or not, their destinies are all intertwined. As they say, you are only six degrees of separation from anyone in the world. The six degrees is the maximum, and our characters are all going to be much closer than the six by the time we are done. ...

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