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I liked it, but it would probably be better as an audio book read by Red Green than as an eBook. I'd just feel like it would be more like he's pulling for us and we are all in it together.

Otherwise, some good one-liners (though like any good old-fogey his one-liners are longer than one-line).

Not Keillor's best work but you take what you can as far as Wobegon stories these days. With a title like that released in 2020 I thought it would be how covid effected the little town on the edge of the prairie. However there's no mention of social distancing, only one slight jab at masks, and instead a "virus" that infects people through unpasteurized Norwegian "Portuguese" cheese that makes folks act without inhibition. Folks act rather non-Minnesotan, then the city council brings in a therapist to try to help put things back in order.

So far I'm disappointed. I had been of the impression that this was Old Earth Creationism from a Catholic perspective, but so far its just be the same old "See, evolution is in line with Catholic teaching" stuff.

I loved Jurassic Park so I wanted to read Crichton's OG novel. I liked it but not nearly as much as Jurassic Park. I have a queasy stomach when it comes to descriptions about blood, and there was a lot of that in this book. If you want to read it I would recommend dead tree rather than audiobook. Other editions might be better, but the one I listened to there were minutes and minutes of the narrator painstakingly reading tables that I would have jus skimmed over if I was actually reading it.

It's a 1960s near-future sci-fi thriller. The story comes down to a satellite falling form space onto a small Arizona town, and everyone in the town dying because of some space germs that were on it. The rest of the book goes into trying to figure it out, how to contain it, whether or not to just send a small nuke to Arizona to stop it from spreading further, etc.