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Summary: brown brittle book
Review: The book itself is probably more humorous than anything I have ever read, but the book as I received it from the seller, [name], used as it was, literally fell apart in my hand when I opened it to read. Brown and brittle as it was, I ended up with 57 separate pages of the best Woody Allen imaginable.
I guess the price was right at [money] including shipping.
If you like short story fiction filled with insane humor, no one beats Woody Allen.
A word to the wise from the unwise--Buy a new one!
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Summary: FUNNIEST AMERICAN BOOK
Review: This is the funniest American book there is. ...People should kick back and read GETTING EVEN once a week, for life. There'd be less misery in the world. People would lighten up and get the white-hot pokers out of... well, you get the idea... When Allen leans on the absurd, I don't mind. As long as he's funny. (No, Im not just a space-case: I also like legitimate, straight forward, strictly-for-accountants, beer-and-hairspray type humor, much to the consternation of my pseudo-intellectual friends.) I like to read GETTING EVEN lying in bed, undisturbed, every muscle and nerve relaxed, so I can give it my complete attention. This way no gag/joke/witticism passes by unobserved or unabsorbed, or unenjoyed.
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Summary: This book is funny, witty, and fun
Review: This was one of the best and funniest books I have ever read. By far it was the most interesting.
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Summary: An Inspired Collection
Review: Well-written non-reverential essays on various topics like the Mob, Mensa, and the authorship of Romeo and Juliet. I read "Getting Even" in high school and continue to enjoy it. Along with Perelmn and Lardner, Woody had the ability to write funny pieces.
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Summary: 100 stars for Woody
Review: While reading this book, I laughed more in an hour and a half than I did all last month. Seriously, this was the funniest book I have ever read. Being new to Woody's writing, I was expecting actual essays, but what are contained here are actually short stories, and these are some of the best stories I have ever read. This may be insulting to some fans, but Woody can sort of be compared to Dave Barry, or vice versa. Barry's writing, of course, is incomparable, but you can find similarites. However, whereas Barry can sometimes sound immature and (ahem) dumb, Woody writes intelligently and hilariously. In one story that relates the history of organized crime, the author recounts how "Albert (The Logical Positivist) Corillo assassinated Kid Lipsky by locking him in a closet and sucking all the air out through a straw," initiating a bloodbath and the birth of the mob. In context, the humor is even better, and although two of the seventeen stories are somewhat lacking in Woody's trademark humor, the rest of the stories completely make up for them. I completely recommend this book to anyone who enjoys the writings of Dave Barry or Douglas Adams: I guarantee that you will bust a gut or two laughing.
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Summary: 100 stars for Woody
Review: While reading this book, I laughed more in an hour and a half than I did all last month. Seriously, this was the funniest book I have ever read. Being new to Woody's writing, I was expecting actual essays, but what are contained here are actually short stories, and these are some of the best stories I have ever read. This may be insulting to some fans, but Woody can sort of be compared to Dave Barry, or vice versa. Barry's writing, of course, is incomparable, but you can find similarites. However, whereas Barry can sometimes sound immature and (ahem) dumb, Woody writes intelligently and hilariously. In one story that relates the history of organized crime, the author recounts how "Albert (The Logical Positivist) Corillo assassinated Kid Lipsky by locking him in a closet and sucking all the air out through a straw," initiating a bloodbath and the birth of the mob. In context, the humor is even better, and although two of the seventeen stories are somewhat lacking in Woody's trademark humor, the rest of the stories completely make up for them. I completely recommend this book to anyone who enjoys the writings of Dave Barry or Douglas Adams: I guarantee that you will bust a gut or two laughing.
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Summary: brown brittle book
Review: Woody Allen's movies have pretty much left me dissappointed over the last 10 years or so, but this but puts me in stiches every time I pick it up. I've had this for years and it still has the power to make me laugh out loud while reading it.
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Summary: Laugh out loud funny
Review: Woody Allen's movies have pretty much left me dissappointed over the last 10 years or so, but this but puts me in stiches every time I pick it up. I've had this for years and it still has the power to make me laugh out loud while reading it.
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