Best to Laugh: A Novel, by Lorna Landvik
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Best to Laugh: A Novel, by Lorna Landvik
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No one steps up to life’s banquet, holds out her tray, and orders, “Grief, please!” But as a child, Candy Pekkala was served a heaping helping of it. Every buffet line has a dessert section, however, and when a cousin calls with a Hollywood apartment to sublet, it seems as though Candy is finally offered something sweet. It’s good-bye to Minnesota and hello to California, where a girl who has always lived by her wits has a real chance of making a living with them. With that, the irrepressible Lorna Landvik launches her latest irresistible character onto the world stage—or at least onto the dimly lit small stage where stand-up comedy gets its start.
Herself a comic performer, Landvik taps her own adventurous past and Minnesota roots to conjure Candy’s life in this strange new Technicolor home. Her fellow tenants at Peyton Hall include a female bodybuilder, a ruined nightclub impresario, and a well-connected Romanian fortune-teller. There are game show appearances and temp jobs at a record company and an establishment suspiciously like the Playboy Mansion, and of course the alluring but not always welcoming stage of stand-up comedy. As she hones her act, Candy is tested by humiliation, hecklers, and the inherent sexism that insists “chicks aren’t funny.”
Written with the light touch and quiet wisdom that have made her works so popular, this is classic Lorna Landvik—sometimes so funny, you’ll cry; sometimes so sad, you might as well laugh; and always impossible to put down.
Best to Laugh: A Novel, by Lorna Landvik - Amazon Sales Rank: #243726 in Books
- Published on: 2015-09-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x .80" w x 5.50" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 312 pages
Best to Laugh: A Novel, by Lorna Landvik Review
Best to Laugh is cheerfully outlandish, filled with ambition, love, adventure, kindness, swimming pools, nightclubs, and baked goods. Best of all, it’s laugh-out-loud hilarious.—Julie Schumacher, author of The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls and Dear Committee Members
Best to Laugh had me laughing out loud. It’s both funny and tender, and filled with memorable characters. You can’t help but love Candy Pekkala and her quirky, mixologist grandmother. Lorna Landvik has written a charming novel with real heart.—Shannon Olson, author of Welcome to My Planet
One of the things that accounts for Lorna Landvik’s immense popularity is the essential good-heartedness she brings to her work. But as much as this is a celebration of a very special time and place, it is even more a celebration of character, desire, friendship, perseverance, and love—oh, and hamburger hot dish.—Elizabeth Berg, author of Tapestry of Fortunes and The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted
GREAT NOVEL!!! It reads like an autobiography! Best to Laugh, although fiction, is one of the truest accounts of a Hollywood life one can read. It takes a master of comedy to be able to write about the business of laughter. To interpret its roots and inner working. Lorna Landvik is precisely that. I, for one of many, can attribute countless gut busting laughs to the genius of Lorna. A great nostalgic tale.—Mo Collins, actress/comedian
About the Author
Lorna Landvik is the best-selling author of many novels, including Patty Jane’s House of Curl, Angry Housewives Eating Bon-Bons, Oh My Stars, and Mayor of the Universe (Minnesota, 2014). She has performed stand-up and improvisational comedy around the country and is also a public speaker, playwright, and actor, most recently seen in an all-improvised, one-woman show Party in the Rec Room.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Landvik writes another winner! By J. G. Sebastian I'm a fan of Lorna Landvik's books, and especially loved Best To Laugh. Partly autobiographical, Candy moves to LA where she lives in one of Hollywood's old style apartment enclaves where everyone knows and becomes involved in the life of their neighbors. With a great cast of characters who become a part of Candy's life, Landvik shows us the greatness of old Hollywood and the people she meets while forging a wonderful new life for herself. Funny, dramatic and real...I didn't want it to end.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. It's ALWAYS Best to Laugh! By writeoncindy It's not only BEST TO LAUGH (Univ. of Minnesota Press) when you start reading one of Lorna Landvik's novels, it's impossible not to split one's side. She's one of the funniest story-tellers and creators of memorable quirky characters that you'll ever come across.Lorna comes from the land of 10-thousand lakes, also known for the phrase, "you betcha," "hot plates," and weather temperatures varying from extremely cold to deathly frigid. We're talking about Minnesota. "Fargo" recently won the Emmy for Best Mini-Series, so Americans appreciate that part of the heartlands special brand of humor. Lorna Landvik serves it up in huge helpings. BEST TO LAUGH is Lorna's own fictional account of going to Hollywood in her twenties to try to make it in stand-up comedy! She takes a real funny story over the top.In BEST TO LAUGH, we meet Candy Pekkala, half Korean, half Norwegian, one-hundred-percent Minnesotan. Her parents have died and she is raised by her grandmother. Soon after she graduates from college without any plans for the future, her cousin calls from Los Angeles asking her to sublet her apartment, so Candy picks up and moves. It's good-bye Minnesota, hello California!Candy moves into Peyton Hall, a two-story apartment complex smack in the middle of Tinseltown right by Sunset, Santa Monica and Hollywood Boulevards. There's an Olympic sized pool designed by Douglas Fairbanks in the center of the complex which is gossip central for residents. Peyton Hall is full of old and new Hollywood characters, which provide 24-hour drama. There's a female body builder, a ruined nightclub promoter, a well-connected old Romanian Fortune Teller, as well as those trying to make it, those who have made it and lost it and those who will never make it. Once she hits the stage, there is no turning back. The friends Candy makes at Peyton Hall create a family for her but her grandmother is her biggest cheerleader.Thank you to the University of Minnesota Press and http://www.netgalley.com for a kindle copy of BEST TO LAUGH for an honest review. I look forward to reading more from Lorna Landvik.FYI: I've read several of her previous novels, including her 1996 debut, PATTY JANE'S HOUSE OF CURL and 2004 ANGRY HOUSEWIVES EATING BON BONS. She's written a total of ten and after you read BEST TO LAUGH, you will want to read them ALL!
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful. A little shallow... By Rituleen Trigger Warning: Drug Abuse, suggested rape, parental death, domestic violenceWhen her cousin leaves to shoot a TV show, Candy Pekkala sublets her empty California apartment and takes on the opportunity of a lifetime. Meeting new neighbors and friends, and finding her own way in the now-decrepit world of old Hollywood, Candy realizes her dreams of being a comedian and learns to let go of her painful past.Best to Laugh isn’t laugh-out-loud funny. Some of the jokes don’t translate well into the written medium, and the book doesn’t delve as deeply into the darker aspects of Candy’s life as one would hope. There’s a lot to dredge up, and a lot written — Candy’s drug abuse, the loss of her parents, the loss of her hopes, sexism, racism (she’s half Korean) — but none of it causes an emotional reaction beyond vague empathy. It’s hard to feel the loss Candy has faced, and it’s hard to care about that past trauma when all of her present events are so perfect (save a few hiccups including stage fright, a racist comment here, a sexist comment there, but nothing that feels like a serious threat even if it is) and aligned to bring her towards success. Even her love life aligns perfectly—the guy she likes, who happens to be in a committed relationship, breaks it off for no real given reason just to be with her.The epilogue was very overdone, reminiscent of those old teenage movies where each character or couple is shown with a caption of their future scrawled across the bottom of the screen right before the credits roll. Removing that portion of the story would have left the reader with a sense of excitement that things are just getting started for this soon-to-be famous comedian, instead of the overly-perfect happily ever after that occurred. Yes, a happily ever after is wonderful, but not when it feels so cut-and-paste. Great kids, great husband, great friends, great career — it didn’t need to be spelled out. There is a feeling that the epilogue was only added to send the reader back to the imagery of the prologue, and not really much else.There are only negative comments in this review, and it would be nice to have something positive to say, but when the entire book feels off-key, and keeps the reader from really feeling something for the character despite all of their trauma and hardship and growth, there’s something wrong.
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