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Loading... The Lake, The River & The Other Lake (2005)by Steve Amick
None. Wonderful. Funny and moving. Town of Weneshkeen on Lake Meenigeesis invaded by fudgies every summer. Roger Drinkwater wages war on jet skis (  ) mulliner | Oct 17, 2009 |  Used my 100-page rule; couldn't finish it. It started out good - lots of "quirky" characters and witty, but it made a turn somewhere and it just didn't go anywhere. I especially didn't like the dark turn it took with one of the characters and his computer. (  ) lincsterreads | Aug 28, 2009 | Weneshkeen, Michigan, is a small town on Lake Michigan with a river called Oh-John-Ninny which feeds into the lake in town, Lake Weneshkeen. The book tells the story of one summer in this town of middle-class locals and "summer people" with their big houses, bit boats, and jet skis. Lots of colorful characters with interwoven stories. A great read. ( ) CatieN | Aug 5, 2009 | I started reading because it was placed in the area we visited on our family vacation. It was a pretty decent read, but I was a little annoyed at the amount of sex. I believe the sex was part of the story, but probably not at the level it maintained. Interesting characters and subplots, but I was left with a sour cherry taste in my mouth. I would have preferred a sweeter variety with better movement towards the conclusion. With all of that, I thought the best story was around the character of Preacher Gene Reacher. Interesting story and development. (  ) wvlibrarydude | Jul 15, 2009 | The Lake, the River & the Other Lake by Steve Amuck At the outset of this novel, set among Michigan’s Gold Coast, you get the feeling that this is going to be just another “Townie” vs. Year round” novel. One with perhaps, some extra quirks along the way. But with a little more reading you find that you are getting so much more. You’re getting petty sabotage, pedophilia, bigotry, inter-net porn addiction, and teenaged extreme sex. Of course you also get a surprise visit with David Letterman and fudge…. a lot of fudge or more precisely “Fudgies” a cute name cooked up to describe the out of town folks and a running gag through out the entire novel. A very, very long running gag. Thankfully; and against my better judgment I forced myself to keep reading this book after slogging through the first half, because I promise you it gets better. Each and every person who has committed some act that is contrary to what we would expect to see in what I had thought was going to be a pleasant light read, gets there comeuppance. Moral lessons are in some very harsh ways, and a few non-traditional happy endings are to be had. Very dark writing with some clichéd secondary characters meant to be comedic but which seem to fall just a tad flat in my opinion. A generous helping of dark comedy is sprinkled throughout this book and thank goodness for that, or you may want to run screaming into the night. (  ) Cats57 | Feb 4, 2009 | no reviews | add a review
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