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    The Zombies of Lake Woebegotten
    The Zombies of Lake Woebegotten
    The Zombies of Lake Woebegotten
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    The Zombies of Lake Woebegotten

    By Harrison Geillor

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    The town of Lake Woebegotton, MN is a small town, filled with ordinary (yet above average) people, leading ordinary lives. Ordinary, that is, until the dead start coming back to life, with the intent to feast upon the living! Now this small town of above average citizens must overcome their petty rivalries and hidden secrets in order to survive an onslaught of the dead.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNight Shade Books
    Release dateSep 1, 2010
    ISBN9781597802505
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    Harrison Geillor

    Harrison Geillor was born in a small three-room farm house in central MN, sometime in the middle of the twentieth century. He attended one of Minnesota's prestigious institutions of higher learning, were he obtained a degree in English. Like English majors everywhere, he wanted on to work in a variety of jobs that had nothing to do with books or literature. At some point in his life he decided that the best way to appreciate Minnesota was to appreciate it from afar. He splits his time between Santa Cruz and San Francisco, only returning to Minnesota for smelt fishing, and the occasional family reunion.

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      No one in the sleepy town of Lake Woebegotten, Minnesota, knew about the zombies until Gunther Montcrief awoke in the wee hours of the morning needing to relieve himself. He stepped outside, the cold numbing his nose, and quickly took care of business. But a bright flash of a meteor sailing across the sky and exploding into so much dusk froze him in his tracks for a moment until the fading light -- and increasing cold -- told him to return to his little fish shack. Once inside, the commotion caused by the walleye in his cooler caught his attention, seeing as how he hooked them while fishing earlier in the day. They should, by all rights, be deceased, and yet there they were, snapping and eating each other inside their insulated prison. Even chopping their heads off and throwing them in the lake didn't stop the activity.Unbeknownst to Gunther, the same thing was happening all over the world. It took some time for residents of Lake Woebegotten to believe it, thinking that the big cities being shown on TV were simply full of rioters. When they finally did after poor Clem was attacked by Mr. Levit's zombified dog Alta, the townsfolk -- headed by the newly-designated Chief of Police Stevie Ray, Father Edsel and Pastor Daniel Inkfist -- set about shoring up the town in preparation for the zombie apocalypse."The Zombies of Lake Woebegotten" does a fine job parodying Garrison Keillor's homespun and humorous style, giving a "quaint" turn to the typical zombie apocalypse. And while it has the requisite zombie attacks, the story brings forth the underbelly of such a sleepy little town with a fantastic cast of characters: Eileen, head of the Lutheran Women's Circle, who just murdered her husband the mayor; Rufus, the recently-returned college student who thinks because he reads about zombies and has mastered "Call of Duty" that he can take charge of a zombie attack; Cyrus Bell, slightly crazy but loaded down with an arsenal of end-of-the-world protection (i.e., guns like you would not believe); and a serial killer. I enjoyed following their antics trying to take control of the town while at the same time keeping the townsfolk safe from any and all zombies. (And I especially like the use of zombie animals.) It's full of humor and definitely a fun read.
    • 5/5
      The laugh-out-loud quote of the day: "We must be warriors for Christ... armed with our faith, but also armed with shotguns and baseball bats and flamethrowers, if we can get them" (p. 58).
    • 5/5
      I don't remember when I've laughed as loud and as long as I did over the cover copy of The Zombies of Lake Woebegotten by Harrison Geillor. The concept is genius, and the fake blurbs are hysterical. At this point, I should probably admit that I'm not a fan of Prairie Home Companion, zombies, or literary mash-ups, making this book an unlikely choice for me. What can I say? I judged this book by its cover. And that turned out to be a not-entirely-accurate way to judge the interior contents. As I mentioned, the cover copy was laugh-out-loud funny and just a bit stupid. Based on that first impression, I have to say that the book was all-around better-written, better-plotted, and a lot less stupid than I expected. Also, the humor was different. It was funny and satirical, but less "in your face" than I expected. The plot is easy to summarize. In fact, one character does just that, "The situation is this. The dead have come back to life, and they're dangerous. Just like in some kind of horror movie or video game. When the corpses rise, there's nothing human left in them, as far as I can tell, just a terrible hunger." Lake Woebegotten does not exist in a pop-culture vacuum. Another character has taken a course in "The Zombie as Metaphor." He kept up a running dialog throughout along the lines of, "It seems to me we're dealing with the classic George Romero Night of the Living Dead sort of zombies, just straight-up reanimated corpses hungry for human flesh, probably brought to life by some form of cosmic radiation. You heard about the meteor shower last night, right? Who knows what came flying down from space?" Oddly enough, this book reminded me a lot of Stephen King's recent doorstop, Under the Dome. Both stories are basically a look at an entire small town full of people coping with a dangerous and otherworldly stressor. The town is made up of individuals with secrets, hidden agendas, and various strengths and weaknesses. It's a perfect setting for drama and (as even Mr. King knows) comedy. As in, "Julie's eyes had a strange light to them, and Otto wondered about her past, who she was, really, where she'd gone when she left town, why she'd come back...." Or, "Eileen hadn't exactly developed a taste for blood, like some kind of tiger that eats one little Javanese boy and can't abide the taste of anything by sweet, sweet manflesh after that, but she'd discovered she could kill both deliberately and in the heat of the moment if the job needed doing." The novel is structured in three parts, and here's a great example of the pseudonymous author taking a more sophisticated and interesting approach to telling the story. The middle section is entitled, "Twenty-some Odd Scenes from the Winter, in No Particular Order, Certainly Not Chronological." And that, of course, is exactly what it is. But by presenting these short chapters jumbled and out of order, he does a great job of creating narrative tension. It was this section that bumped the book up to 5 stars for me. The one area that may disappoint is if you're looking for some real scares. I'm widely-acknowledged to be huge scaredy-cat, but not even I had a moment's fright over these zombies. And that's the way I like it. But I laughed a lot, and got a fast, fun story with a perfect ending. My determination to stay far, far away from Minnesota is firmly reinforced.

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