I got to 25 % and quit. It was ok, just not for me. Imagine Fargo meets zombies and there you go. ( )

This is a mash-up of the bestselling spoken word audiobook series for adults Lake Wobegon, mixed in with the current zombie phenomenon. Lake Wobegon is a fictional town in Minnesota. The author Garrison Keillor offers humorous and touching monologues of bizarre incidents that have occurred in the town. Typically the people of Lake Wobegon are above average men, women, and children. In the Zombies of Lake Woebegotten the similar above average people have zombies infiltrating their Minnesota town following a meteorite that flew over Earth. The story includes some distinctive characters, faced with humorous and violent situations.

I respect this retelling for what it is. Those not familiar with Lake Wobegon may find it a decent read, with the understanding it is far from a typical zombie tale. The characters are outlandish: a serial killer who now does zombie patrols, a Norse Viking who goes after zombie bears, a dominatrix who is ex-military, and a mayor who is physically attracted to his car. This is most definitely an adult book. It is humorous, but I didn’t find it laugh-out-loud funny. The second half of the book was better; the first half of the book wasn’t told in sequential order and I had a hard time following the storyline. Another interesting addition to the zombie genre for fans of everything zombie.

The narrator of the audiobook sounded old and raspy, which was sometimes annoying. However, the voices he did for the characters were really well done. For lovers of Lake Wobegon you have to listen to the audio to get the full experience of this parody. ☊ ★★★★☆
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This is a mash-up of the bestselling spoken word audiobook series for adults Lake Wobegon, mixed in with the current zombie phenomenon. Lake Wobegon is a fictional town in Minnesota. The author Garrison Keillor offers humorous and touching monologues of bizarre incidents that have occurred in the town. Typically the people of Lake Wobegon are above average men, women, and children. In the Zombies of Lake Woebegotten the similar above average people have zombies infiltrating their Minnesota town following a meteorite that flew over Earth. The story includes some distinctive characters, faced with humorous and violent situations.

I respect this retelling for what it is. Those not familiar with Lake Wobegon may find it a decent read, with the understanding it is far from a typical zombie tale. The characters are outlandish: a serial killer who now does zombie patrols, a Norse Viking who goes after zombie bears, a dominatrix who is ex-military, and a mayor who is physically attracted to his car. This is most definitely an adult book. It is humorous, but I didn’t find it laugh-out-loud funny. The second half of the book was better; the first half of the book wasn’t told in sequential order and I had a hard time following the storyline. Another interesting addition to the zombie genre for fans of everything zombie.

The narrator of the audiobook sounded old and raspy, which was sometimes annoying. However, the voices he did for the characters were really well done. For lovers of Lake Wobegon you have to listen to the audio to get the full experience of this parody. ☊ ★★★★☆
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This is a mash-up of the bestselling spoken word audiobook series for adults Lake Wobegon, mixed in with the current zombie phenomenon. Lake Wobegon is a fictional town in Minnesota. The author Garrison Keillor offers humorous and touching monologues of bizarre incidents that have occurred in the town. Typically the people of Lake Wobegon are above average men, women, and children. In the Zombies of Lake Woebegotten the similar above average people have zombies infiltrating their Minnesota town following a meteorite that flew over Earth. The story includes some distinctive characters, faced with humorous and violent situations.

I respect this retelling for what it is. Those not familiar with Lake Wobegon may find it a decent read, with the understanding it is far from a typical zombie tale. The characters are outlandish: a serial killer who now does zombie patrols, a Norse Viking who goes after zombie bears, a dominatrix who is ex-military, and a mayor who is physically attracted to his car. This is most definitely an adult book. It is humorous, but I didn’t find it laugh-out-loud funny. The second half of the book was better; the first half of the book wasn’t told in sequential order and I had a hard time following the storyline. Another interesting addition to the zombie genre for fans of everything zombie.

The narrator of the audiobook sounded old and raspy, which was sometimes annoying. However, the voices he did for the characters were really well done. For lovers of Lake Wobegon you have to listen to the audio to get the full experience of this parody. ☊ ★★★★☆
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I started this book once and put it down because the first few pages simply didn't engage me. I thought the first character/scene was a bad choice to start a book with, and it seemed that it was setting a tone (almost humorous) that I didn't think fit the concept (zombies)...

Then I picked it up again and forced myself through the first chapter and, suddenly, found that it was actually a pretty decent zombie novel. It retained a strange sense of humour throughout which I didn't quite "get", but that might be because I have no idea what rural Wisconsin is like. And I have never met in real life anyone who was anything like the majority of characters in the novel.

But, all that aside... it was well-written, with a nice bit of suspense, and a home-grown bad guy to boot. So the story wasn't actually about zombies taking over the world (what zombie books are usually about), but more of how a small town comes together in the face of crisis (which is, incidentally, zombies in this case, but could have been any wide scale crisis). Ultimately I enjoyed it, and suspect would have liked it even more, if the humour/characters had resonated with me a bit more. ( )