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Title: Groucho and Me by Groucho Marx ISBN: 0-306-80666-5 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: September, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.56 (18 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: All Groucho via all Groucho
Comment: Groucho and Me was not quite what I expected. I wanted a full recap of life with the Marx brothers. Groucho spends 20 pages talking about his brothers, then the rest is just just of him. Well, what do you expect from an autobiography? But it isn't exactly a detailed description of HIS life, either. This is more or less a compilation of random journal entries from Groucho; nothing extremely in-depth. And that's... bad? Well, no it isn't. In fact, I really enjoyed this book. Being a big fan of Groucho from the start, I loved all the hilarious stories, profound ideas, and non-stop witicism in here. It's a book that will make you laugh out loud, and even if it doesn't give us nearly what we wanted to know about this guy, it's the closest you'll ever come. If you're anywhere near a Marx brothers fan, Groucho and Me is a worthy pick-up. A wonderful book, though Groucho himself admits that it's really not about anything at all.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Comedy!
Comment: I loved this book. It is indeed the funniest as well as the best written book I have ever read. His insane and eccentric jokes are the greatest ever recorded. This book is a must have for any Groucho Marx fan.
Rating: 3
Summary: Better At Ad Libs Than Facing A Typewriter Or A Stenographer
Comment: First, it's a privilege to comment publicly on the wonderful Groucho Marx.
Second, Groucho and Me does not exactly stink, but if you wander into the alley behind Nate and Al's in Beverly, you'll get a general sense of the substance of the writing.
Groucho gave it his all...I will grant him that. But, between Sheekman's ghost writing and Groucho's indeterminable passion for going off-track, this book isn't so much an autobiography as it is a hat so full of familiar tricks that the brim is hanging by mere threads.
Groucho, god bless him, was possibly the funniest man of the twentieth century...or, as a professorial contestant once described him to his face on the quiz show, "perhaps the leading wit in the English speaking world" (to which Julius added: "If you don't win any money here tonight, it won't be my fault.") -- but this book fails to mirror it.
But worth a read.
Not surprisingly, another book, The Groucho Letters, reflects Groucho's rapier wit much more successfully than Groucho, a frustrated writer to be certain, could, upon encountering a blank sheet of paper.
But -- he is still The Man.
Jay Hopkins
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Title: Harpo Speaks! by Harpo Marx, Rowland Barber, Susan Marx, Bill Marx ISBN: 0879100362 Publisher: Limelight Editions Pub. Date: March, 1988 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: The Groucho Letters: Letters from and to Groucho Marx by Groucho Marx ISBN: 030680607X Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: September, 1994 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Memoirs of a Mangy Lover by Groucho Marx, Leo Hershfield, Leo Hershfeld ISBN: 0306811049 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: 05 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Groucho Marx: and Other Short Stories and Tall Tales : Selected Writings of Groucho Marx by Groucho Marx, Robert Bader ISBN: 0571198988 Publisher: Faber & Faber Pub. Date: 26 September, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Monkey Business: The Lives and Legends of the Marx Brothers by Simon Louvish ISBN: 0312252927 Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books Pub. Date: 08 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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