Between the Bridge and the River | Craig Ferguson

Between the Bridge and the River | Craig Ferguson | Awesome Book

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Between the Bridge...

	Between the Bridge and the River Craig Ferguson Chronicle Books, 2007 - 336 pages average customer review:based on 81 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Bawdy, joyous, messy, hysterically funny, and guaranteed to offend regardless of religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, or profession Between the Bridge and the River is the debut novel by Craig Ferguson, host of CBS's The Late Late Show. Two childhood friends from Scotland and two illegitimate half-brothers from the American South suffer and enjoy all manner of bizarre experiences which, as it turns out, are somehow interconnected and, surprisingly enough, meaningful. An eclectic cast of characters includes Carl Jung, Fatty Arbuckle, Virgil, Marat, Socrates, and Tony Randall. Love, greed, hope, revenge, organized religion, and Hollywood are alternately tickled and throttled. Impossible to summarize and impossible to stop reading, this is a romantic comic odyssey that actually delivers and rewards.

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A Surreal Slice of Life

I cannot remember ever enjoying a book as much as I did this one. Prior to reading this book, I only knew Ferguson as "Mr. Wick" from the old Drew Carey Show - afterward, I've become a true fan.

"Between the Bridge and the River" is an astoundingly funny book, full of the sort of sly, deadpan humor that Ferguson so ably displays on his late-night television show; but it is also poignant, intense, emotional. It was so hard to put down I really can't recommend taking it on vacation, as I did - I couldn't stop reading it even in Las Vegas! The fun part is, if you've ever heard Ferguson's voice, it's very easy to "hear" his voice internally as the narrator. I laughed out loud more than once (which brought some odd stares while I was sitting in the terminal at McCarran).

Between the droll life observations on life scattered throughout the book, there is a story of four men whose lives intersect in the oddest ways, the twists and turns that carry them from childhood to adulthood (and sometimes beyond), told in what might have been a jarringly non-linear fashion that somehow works. Despite the jumps back and forth and forth and back in their history, not to mention the dream world where Carl Jung lives, the stories merge delightfully into a whole, absolutely and totally satisfying.

In fact, I think it's time I read it again.

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Awesome Book

Bought this book for my daughter as a gift after she took me to see Craig live in person. She was thrilled with it. I made a good choice at a good price. Thanks Amazon for helping me make my daughter very happy.
Vicki

Fantastic!

I am an avid reader and more often than not I find myself somewhat disappointed in the tone/plot/character development/ending (you get my point) of a book. Not this book. I loved it! It is entertaining, laugh out loud funny, heart-warming and real. Buy it. I don't think you will regret it!

Quite a jump from hosting late night TV

This book was a bit of a surprise. Ferguson has a lot of characters, each involved in their own story, none of which are apparently related to one another. Then at the end, he ties it all neatly together. I totally admire an author who can do that. This was a delightful surprise to discover about my celebrity crush, Craig Ferguson.

-C.A. Wulff, author Born Without a Tail

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I was shocked at how good this is

Never watched the Drew Carey show and had no real knowledge of Mr. Ferguson - but reading this, after it came to paperback and I had heard a few good reviews(briefly)....it was like watching an assumedly blank supermodel suddenly explain quantum physics. I guess I am mean at heart, but I did not expect this brilliance from an actor. Actually, quantum physics is a bit like the bones of this book - asking what is the fundamental nature of the universe and finding it to be much different than the world we see.

It's about redemption, love...and very very well done. Funny and vulgar (in a good sense) Wanted to restart the book after I finished it.

Stunning. You go up on the favorites shelf, Mr. Ferguson. Quit the day job.

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