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Jean Shepherd: Don't Be a Leaf (Classic Radio Humor)

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I like Jean Shepherd when I listen to him. I love to read him. I think Garrsion Keillor does a better job of radio presentation, but definitely took his lead from Shepherd. Shepherd, on the other hand, is the much better writer--light years ahead of Keillor.

What frustrated me most about this CD was that if I had to stop listening at any point in the, I couldn't just select the track where I'd left off and begin from that point. I had to go back to the beginning. It's irritating, and took away from my enjoyment of this. I think using the commercial breaks Shepherd takes in his show would be a natural breaking point, allowing the listener to take up where they left off.

So for the production company that put this together, may I suggest going back and reformatting this entire collection, because I'm betting you did it on all the other Shepherd cds you've made available.

as the master of the radio once put it, the transmision will go on for infinity traveling out into space and you only need the electronics to listen in again and again. we dont have to leave the comfort of the planet to catch his radio shows, a wonderful slice of the good life spitting out of those little coaxial drivers. recommended but from a person who cannot get enough jean shepherd.

I was in junior high shool in New York during the 60's. Each night I made sure to be in bed by 10:15pm so I could turn on my radio and listen to Jean Shepherd's show. Some shows were better than other's, but I enjoyed them all. If you haven't listened to him before, do so now. It's great to hear about Scutt Farkas, Grover Dill, Flick, Schwartz, The Bumpuses, W.C. Snelgrove and other great characters. They've got to make you laugh.

I purchased a set of three of these Audio CD's for my Girlfriends Father for Christmas one year. He seemed to love them! He works as a Nationwide Claims Adjuster in my area and has tons of road time. He pop's a disk in, in the morning and has fun driving all day. 10/10 for this one!

(this is an identical review for all three products that I purchased!)

I was not familiar with Jean Shepherd's radio show and did not enjoy the cd's.

If you love this guy, you can have him. I never liked his "appearances" on NPR's "All Things Considered," although I found THE CHRISTMAS STORY movie mildy amusing. People assured me I had to hear his original shows to understand his genius and all I know now is I'm roughly 50 bucks poorer for the effort. I return to my original impression (from almost 30 years ago) : the man was a witless lacrymose gasbag with an oedipal complex and absolutely nothing original or interesting to say. And he seems to be in love with himself as he jabbers on, chortling at his own "jokes" and generally coming off like a hick town Lenny Bruce wannabe. Boring, irritating and not funny. At least not to me.