| Between the Bridge and the River | 
 enlarge | Author: Craig Ferguson
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  82 reviews
Sales Rank: 36426
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.3 x 1.3
ISBN: 0811853756
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.92
EAN: 9780811853750
ASIN: 0811853756
Publication Date: March 23, 2006
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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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 HELP OTHERS November 2, 2008
Craig Ferguson is likely to surprise us all in the coming years. This book is brilliant and very funny. There is so much to read between the lines. Then, what is discovered between the bridge and the river will surprise you. I believe that Mr. Ferguson, underneath his profane wit, is a deeply spiritual man. I anxiously await his next offering.
Fantastic! October 29, 2008
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!
Awesome Book August 31, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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
 I was shocked at how good this is June 17, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
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.
A Surreal Slice of Life May 18, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
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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