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Title: Without Feathers by Woody Allen ISBN: 0-345-33697-6 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 12 February, 1986 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.47 (19 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Good, but not Great like "Getting Even"
Comment: Without Feathers is good vintage Woody Allen writing. Interestingly, the breadth of essays contained in this book are a lot like his movies... there are great ones, there are good ones, and there are bad ones. I would say that this classifies the 18 different essays contained within this book to a tee with most of them landing in the "good" category. I've read all of his books, and I would say the most classic Woody Allen essay's are in Getting Even. I would recommend that anyone interested in reading a Allen book go there first, and then come to this one if they like it (plus it is in chronological order that way).
Perhaps the best thing about this book was not the essays but rather the two plays that were contained within. The play Death is hilarious, and ultimately was made into one of Woody Allen's films. This play gives an insight into how he writes primarily dialogue and very little description. Additionally, the play God was also very funny. The purchase is worth it to see the contrast between how Allen writes essays versus how he writes screenplays. The essays were good (not all that laugh out loud funny), but the plays were excellent.
Rating: 4
Summary: Classic Allen
Comment: I was recommended this book because of the play "Death." I found the two plays to be much funnier than some of the short stories and essays. The short stories are written in the older style of Allen's humor. They are funny because Allen is constantly using unexpected silly plot twists. I found these silly twists to be a bit much at times. However, if you like his older movies then you will probably like the way he writes the short stories. The plays were, I thought, much more clever. They were still silly (of course) but they had more continuity than the short stories. In addition the unexpected still occurred frequently but it seems more in context, in the plays.
Regardless, this book is very funny and if you like Allen's movies, then you'll definitely find this book funny as well.
Rating: 5
Summary: Very Funny
Comment: "Without Feathers" was Woody Allen's second collection of humorous pieces, and probably his best. These originally appeared in the early 1970's, in magazines like "The New Yorker" and "The New Republic."
Some are short stories, like "No Kaddish for Weinstein" and "The Whore of Mensa." There are two plays, "Death" (the inspiration for Allen's "Shadows and Fog"), and the much better "God", a masterpiece of absurdity.
There are parodies of Encyclopedia Brown ("Match Wits with Inspector Ford") and Henrik Ibsen (the hysterical "Lovborg's Women Considered"), irreverent essays on English literature and civil disobedience, reviews of some very bizarre ballets, and more.
"Without Feathers" is fantastic and, as a bonus, much less expensive than many inferior humor books.
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Title: Getting Even by Woody Allen ISBN: 0394726405 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 August, 1978 List Price(USD): $9.00 |
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Title: Side Effects by Woody Allen ISBN: 0345343352 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 12 September, 1986 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Woody Allen on Woody Allen: In Conversation With Stig Bjorkman by Woody Allen, Stig Bjorkman ISBN: 0802134254 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: November, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Pure Drivel by Steve Martin ISBN: 078688505X Publisher: Hyperion Pub. Date: 06 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Naked Pictures of Famous People by Jon Stewart ISBN: 0688171621 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 06 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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