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Title: The First 280 Years of Monty Python by Kim "Howard" Johnson ISBN: 0-312-16933-7 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 19 June, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.4 (15 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: WHY NOT JUST A BOOK ABOUT THE LAST 80 YEARS???
Comment: Thats the question you might very well ask! I enjoyed the first version of this book. Mr.Johnson does indeed include some great photos and some great information. (I have read his stuff since his days way back when in STARLOG Magazine.). The only complaints I can say I have,are: #1 The over use of the words "he laughed"(Nearly ever quote by a person,is followed by that phrase. Makes them all sound like giggling ninnies).AND #2 The fact that Python,by Mr.Johnson's reckoning,can do no wrong. We surely all enjoy their work,but lets be frank,Python like the Beatles,are capable of producing rubbish,its not all solid gold. The writing at times feels very "fannish" but that is okay,the information is very valid. My only question is,why not just release the NEW Information as a NEW BOOK?? So what if its a small book! The original book "First 200 Years" is still out and about.(Even if this one is on glossier paper.) If you do not have the original book,get this version,NOW!! If you have the original,wait 5 more years for, "First 310 Years" and get twice the book at half the price!
Rating: 5
Summary: The most in-depth Python book I have ever encountered!
Comment: Of all my years(1, in fact!)of reading about the British Bad Boys,
this is definitely the silver tuna. It has mini biographies
of each of the members,the history,listings of all movies,albums and
books,and,which is very helpful to me,a guide to every single Flying Circus
episode!If you at least have any sense of off-beat humor,you will buy this
book! Actual title:The First 20 Years of Monty Python(there
is an "X" through the last "0")
Rating: 3
Summary: One for the completists among us (this means you)
Comment: This had been on my "To Read" shelf since 1990 (I know because I was using the sales receipt as a bookmark). A biased, glowing look at the Pythons, it is full of useless but amusing trivia, which is exactly what Python fanatics like myself buy these books for. As a history, it's nowhere near the level of Hill and Weingard's Saturday Night (a look at the making of Saturday Night Live and its myriad cast members), but as histories of the series goes, it's about as good as it gets. There's also a complete vid/bib/discography in the back for those completists out there.
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Title: Monty Python Speaks by David Morgan ISBN: 0380804794 Publisher: Quill Pub. Date: 08 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.50 |
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Title:Monty Python Live ASIN: B00005O7NE Publisher: A & E Home Video Pub. Date: 23 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $17.96 |
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Title: The Pythons: Autobiography by Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Bob McCabe ISBN: 0312311443 Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books Pub. Date: 07 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $60.00 |
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Title: The Monty Python Encyclopedia by Robert Ross ISBN: 1575000369 Publisher: TV Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus : All the Words, Volume 1 by Graham Chapman, Monty Python ISBN: 0679726470 Publisher: Pantheon Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1989 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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