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Title: Cruel Shoes by Steve Martin ISBN: 0-517-33080-6 Publisher: Random House Value Pub Pub. Date: 01 February, 1982 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $1.98 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.39 (18 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: a few words on steve martin's CRUEL SHOES
Comment: with CRUEL SHOES, comic Steve Martin showed the world that he was more than a guy with an arrow through his head. this book is a collection of short stories released during Martin's extremely popular "white-suited, wild and crazy" stand-up routine phase. the cornerstone of this work is the piece that lends its name to the book. in it, a sadistic shoe salesperson hocks his painful ware on finicky cutomers, who, in turn, love the tremendous pain.
Rating: 5
Summary: are poodles still good eating?
Comment: Somewhere in a box at my father's home is a abused beaten up copy of this magnificent text. I see some future historian stumbling over this book, in some distant millennium and wondering what in the hell is going on here. Was this the 20th Century? Looking around at the slobbering, still biting, yackeddy yackeddy misbred poodles that will be inhabiting our poor planet even centuries hence, the discoverer will surely see these dimunations as the true source of all of man's folly, and realize, like Steve Martin so aptly does in his work, that man can only be saved when one sees poodles as good eating.
Mr Martin's genius is on display throughout the text. Not even Congressman Henry Waxman could see the even greater danger that is in store for the cigarette smoker.This book clearly reveals how cigarettes can lead, in there folly, to a lip shortage that nobody can truly desire.
The absence of this book from current shelves can only be descibed as a national tragedy, with maybe even a conspiracy angle to boot (take note Oliver Stone). Someone must rectify this now (with perhaps an annotated edition (with all of the completely new pictures that the cover claimed were inside), before the bridge to the future is rusting and littered with poodle droppings. The future is at stake, try to remember that. Sincerely, Winslow Homo
Rating: 5
Summary: Things Not to Be
Comment: In my opinion there is no funnier book than this if you either picture him reading it or read it aloud as though you were reading a classic work of literature to a group of people. It is the uniqueness of this book from anything Steve has done and really from anything else that make it a classic itself.
This is a collection of short stories with equal parts philosophy, comedy, and nonsense. You need imagination and some wit, but these are qualities that fans of Steve Martin are likely to possess.
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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: The Pleasure of My Company: A Novel by Steve Martin ISBN: 0786869216 Publisher: Hyperion Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Shopgirl by Steve Martin ISBN: 0786885688 Publisher: Theia Pub. Date: 05 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: The Underpants : A Play by Carl Sternheim by Steve Martin ISBN: 0786888245 Publisher: Hyperion Pub. Date: 20 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Other Plays : Picasso at the LapinAgile, the Zig-Zag Woman, Patter for a Floating Lady, WASP by Steve Martin ISBN: 0802135234 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: October, 1997 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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