| 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: 9880
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 336
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Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.8 x 1.1
ISBN: 0811858197
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780811858199
ASIN: 0811858197
Publication Date: March 15, 2007
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 Read It Slowly To Savor It May 15, 2006
10 out of 13 found this review helpful
Wow.
Most of us have figured out by now that this guy is a great talk show host, but who knew it was the thing he's second best at?
This is one of those books that you have to read slowly because (A) you don't want to miss anything and (B) you don't want it to end. Masterfully intertwined storylines make you think about not only the characters he's created but the things they represent and the issues they struggle with. Philosophy meets irony meets a dark and complex sense of humor, and we get to go along for the ride.
This is a great book. A truly great book.
Loved this book! May 12, 2006
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
I am no self purported reviewer of literature but I loved this book! From the begining to the end, the romance in Paris laced with oh-so-French tragedy, the foxhole in WWI, the church of the Braniacs, barfing one's croque, why we can't call someone who is a c*nt a c*nt. I am re-reading it now to try and catch all those little things I may have missed.
But what's it all about you ask?? Oh, right, that would be LIFE- how we all move through it touching each other in ways big and small and in so doing, hopefully reminding each other what it means to be human, to feel sadness, joy, fear, and somehow grow by it all.
Happy reading!
Great read! May 11, 2006
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I'm in the middle of the book but was online to do something else and wanted to express my pleasure at reading this book. I love Craig's work - Saving Grace is brilliant and "Between the Bridge and the River" is also... This man can do it all! He is a true renaissance man... Wonder if he can cook?
Between the Bridge and The River May 10, 2006
6 out of 11 found this review helpful
Like Maeve Binchy on acid. Was so sad to finish it. It's just what you need to lighten up and go deeper at the same time.
 Cloven hoofed bumblebees May 4, 2006
52 out of 62 found this review helpful
With his debut novel, Craig Ferguson establishes himself as much more than the saucy talk-show host we see nightly on CBS. As one reviewer aptly states, Ferguson "is not a talk-show host moonlighting as an author - it might be the other way around".
It is impossible to summarize this book and do it justice. At once poignant and profane, bawdy and beautiful, it is a morality tale of several seemingly disparate individuals each on his own warped road to grace and redemption. Mind you, though, this is not some dreamy esoteric spiritual journey. Ferguson's description of Saul getting action in a bathroom stall will have you fall off your own chair with fits of laughter. And yet just a few pages away the reader is treated to a lovely fairy story of a shape shifting witch and her love for a man. It's an ADD romp of human emotion and experience.
The slapstick parodies of everything from Starbucks to Scientology are hilarious. No one escapes Ferguson's rapier attacks. Certainly no one in Southern California. And casting the movie will be a giggly joy for whichever agency gets that happy task. Who will play the cameo dream sequence appearance of Carl Jung? Of Marat?
I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Ferguson at the LA Times Festival of Books ( a gargantuan annual convergence of authors and readers at UCLA), and he proved as personable and charming there as he seems on the telly.
Craig, by all means use the CBS vehicle to get your face etched firmly into American popular culture. Then please devote yourself full time to writing. You're too good to just interview Tara Reid.
That was the sugar.
Now for some salt.
Craig, Craig, Craig. It's not nice to slap the hand that feeds you. During the Monday Late Late Show following the book festival you did a very witty monologue on a concurrent event, the Coachella [music] Festival, and then described the book festival as "Coachella for Nerds". Which arguably would have been ok, had you followed it with something tempering like: I had a great time, met a lot of lovely nerdy fans, and sold a lot of books to some very nice nerdy people. But no, you let your comment stand alone as some sort of denigration, and went to commercial, with the audience tittering at your dissing of the very folk who spent money on your book and stood in queue in the direct sun for the chance to meet you. Poor form. So, you naughty donkey, you are in the naughty chair. But then, you won't mind, as apparently I am only a nerd.
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