Tales from the Tummy Trilogy (Abridged) Audiobook

" I'm really enjoying this book. "

" Utterly fantastic. In retrospect, I should have been prepared for how incredibly freaking hungry it made me. "

" A bit repetitive in its entirety. I prefer Alice Let's Eat standing on its own,I think. But Trillan's love of food, Alice, and adventure is endearing and he still manages to make me laugh on every page. "

" A great series of essays about food, but less a critique of it and more experiences of eating it. His writing style is great and funny. A great read. "

" While this book is entertaining most of the time, it is redundant. Nice book to have to read snippets between something else. All at once is too much talk about fried chicken and BBQ. There are some funny lines, though. For example, he talks about eating standing up at a certain dive restaurant, and says something like, "When I eat standing up anywhere but home, I miss the cool breeze from the refrigerator." "

" Amazing, hilarious, mouth-watering, and tender. I'm in love with Trillin. I spread reading this book out over about four months so as to cherish each bit of it, and now all I have left is "About Alice," which is so short I might only be able to read a page a week. "

" The last part was the weakest. "

" Made me laugh out loud. Often. One of the highest recommendations I can give. "

" best book about eating ever (and funniest) "

" Gift from a friend, and a new favorite writer on a favorite subject, food. "

" So far so good, who doesn't like a snarky guy talking about good food? "

" Hilarious and charming writing about food-NOT as a producer/cook (No recipes here) but as an avid consumer. Trillin is interested in humble good food, not the elevated world of fancy French restaurants like La Casa de la Maison House. "

" Calvin Trillin cracks me up. "

" Very entertaining - not a bad substitute for eating =) "

" Trillin has an amazing enthusiasm for writing about food. He can make the most mundane meal seem like a feast for the gods. This book is fabulous. "

" The idea read for an eater bound for Paris - which I was. "

" it's supposed to be his 3 books put into 1 big one. there's really nothing all that different from 1 book to the next, and each chapter really doesn't have much to do with the next. it's really just short stories and not edited very well either... "

" As my new Thanksgiving tradition I plan to read Calvin Trillin's story of the first Thanksgiving. I support his campaign to replace turkey with spaghetti carbonara. "

" i actually haven't finished this book. i put it aside b/c i was worried i'd finish it too quickly and wanted to savor it a bit longer. "

" LMAO! Trillin just kills me! "

" Calvin Trillin is all about barbecue, the glories of one's hometown restaurants, and giving "health food" a bad name, (plus he writes with a wit comparable to James Thurber) and all of that is just fine with me. "

" scrumptiously fun. This is actually three of his books in one, so by the middle of book two, the gluttony gets a little old. "

" This was the second time I've read this, it was funnier and made me hungrier than the first. I now am a little bit closer to being a food elitist "

" we named our cats after a bon mot from this wonderful collection of Trillin's food writing. "

" Best Books About Food Ever "

" i heart calvin trillin. "

" Trillin is great. The book holds up amazingly well. Trillin predicted/anticipated a lot of food trends. I wonder if it would be possible to write about regional food in such detail today, though. "

" I bought this book for my dad as a birthday present. As for it being redundant--it's a collection of his columns, and that redundancy keeps it coherent. It's a series of inside jokes between him and us. Great plane reading. "

" Only 140 pages in and it's one of my favorite books in a while. Eating essays from 30 years ago in an entertaining voice. "

" Didn't love it myself, but if you are really into local food in Kansas City and NYC you'll dig it. "