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Loading... Bell Hammers: The True Folk Tale of Little Egypt, Illinois (edition 2023)by Lancelot Schaubert (Author), Lancelot Schaubert (Narrator), Vale (Publisher)
Work InformationBell Hammers by Lancelot Schaubert
![]() None No current Talk conversations about this book. ![]() ![]() I enjoyed this audiobook narrated by the author. It is a bit of a love story, with quite a bit of humor, songs, religion, and the little guy fighting back against the big corporate oil company. Remmy learns from his grandfather how to prank the corporations, telling them a lie to get free cigarettes. From there, Remmy begins pranking his neighbors and finally pulls a huge prank on the company. This doesn't go so well! However, Remmy keeps his good nature and never lets up on pranks. It eventually works out for him, and his love, Beth. Humorous story and you definitely root for Remmy, while following his life from the 1940s to the 2010s. I especially enjoyed hearing the songs sung by the author, it gave the book a real voice! This review was written for LibraryThing Member Giveaways. Funny, poignant, and moving, Bell Hammers is one of the best books I've read in a long time. This book was so easy to fall in love with and reminded me of Mark Twain in a way that made me want to reread his books. Needless to say, I am glad that this story was written. Thank you to the LibraryThing Member Giveaway program for giving me the opportunity to read and review this book. no reviews | add a review
PRANKS. OIL. PROTEST. JOKES BETWEEN NEWLYWEDS. AND ONE HILARIOUS SIEGE OF A MAJOR CORPORATION. Remmy grows up with Beth in Bellhammer, Illinois as oil and coal companies rob the land of everything that made it paradise. Under his Grandad, he learns how to properly prank his neighbors, friends, and foes. Beth tries to fix Remmy by taking him to church. Under his Daddy, Remmy starts the Bell Hammer Construction Company, which depends on contracts from Texarco Oil. And Beth argues with him about how to build a better business. Together, Remmy and Beth start to build a great neighborhood of "merry men" carpenters: a paradise of s'mores, porch furniture, newborn babies, and summer trips to Branson where their boys pop the tops of off the neighborhood's two hundred soda bottles. Their witty banter builds a kind of castle among a growing nostalgia. Then one of Jim Johnstone's faulty Texarco oil derricks falls down on their house and poisons their neighborhood's well. Poisoned wells escalate to torched dog houses. Torched dog houses escalate to stolen carpentry tools and cancelled contracts. Cancelled contracts escalate to eminent domain. Sick of the attacks from Texaco Oil on his neighborhood, Remmy assembles his merry men: "We need the world's greatest prank. One grand glorious jest that'll bloody the nose of that tyrant. Besides, pranks and jokes don't got no consequences, right?" No library descriptions found. |
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![]() GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyRatingAverage:![]()
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