Mere Anarchy (Audible Audio Edition) Woody Allen Audible Studios Books
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For the first time ever, hear Woody Allen's Mere Anarchy in the author's own distinctive and hilarious voice. Here, in his first short-story collection since his three classics Getting Even, Without Feathers, and Side Effects, Allen has managed to write a book that answers the most profound questions of human existence.
In 18 flights of inspirational sanity, we are introduced to a cast of characters only Allen could imagine Jasper Nutmeat, Flanders Mealworm, and the independent film mogul E. Coli Biggs, just to name a few.
Whether he is writing about art, sex, food, or crime, Allen is explosively funny. In "This Nib for Hire", a Hollywood bigwig comes across an author's book in a little country store and describes it in a way that aptly captures this magnificent volume "Actually," the producer says, "I'd never seen a book remaindered in the kindling section before."
Woody Allen's short story collections Mere Anarchy, Getting Even, Without Feathers, and Side Effects are available separately or together as part of The Woody Allen Collection.
Mere Anarchy (Audible Audio Edition) Woody Allen Audible Studios Books
Woody Allen is one of those writes that you love or hate. And this book is no exception. I found particularly funny the way he laughs at science in "Strung Out" and philosophy in "Thus ate Zarathustra". In this last essay he says "Spinoza dined sparingly because he believed that God existed in everything and it's intimidating to wolf down a knish if you think you're ladling mustard onto the First Cause of All Things". This is sample of what you can expect in this book.Product details
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Mere Anarchy (Audible Audio Edition) Woody Allen Audible Studios Books Reviews
What you would expect from a Woody Allen book. Laugh out loud stories that challenge the brain.
Great book!
Good deal
Woody is the best comic writer alive today.
Well, it's Woody Allen isn't it? need we say more?
The two funniest books I ever read were "Without Feathers" and "Getting Even", so my expectations were impossibly high for "Mere Anarchy." But almost to my surprise, Woody Allen's new book at least equals and maybe surpasses them both.
Allen's writing skills are off the charts, whatever the genre. At times, his sentence structure is so intricate and precise, his vocabulary so eccentrically obscure, that his setups become funnier than his punchlines
"I was supremely confident my flair for atmosphere and characterization would sparkle alongside the numbing mulch ground out by studio hacks. Certainly the space atop my mantel might be better festooned by a gold statuette than by the plastic dipping bird that now bobbed there ad infinitum..."
This particular vignette, "This Nib for Hire", is particularly hilarious the story of Flanders Mealworm, a pretentious, out of work novelist writing a novelization of a Three Stooges short.
In the later chapters, Allen drops the highly stylized prose and reverts to earlier form, where he simply piles absurdities on his paragraphs like pastrami on rye. This too is sidesplitting
"How could I not have known that there are little things the size of 'Planck length' in the universe, which are a millionth of a billionth of a billionth of a centimeter? Imagine if you dropped one in a dark theater how hard it would be to find. And how does gravity work? And if it were to cease suddenly, would certain restaurants still require a jacket? ..."
Allen is funny on every level
Funny premises--"Frederich Nietzsche's Diet Book", Savile Row suits impregnated with fragrances, a lighting double kidnapped by Indian terrorists while on location.
Funny, perfectly drawn metaphors and similes--"I have also reviewed by own financial obligations, which have puffed up recently like a hammered thumb." Or, "With that, he scribbled in an additional ninety thousand dollars on the estimate, which had waxed to the girth of the Talmud while rivaling it in possible interpretations."
Funny character names--Hal Roachpaste, Reg Millipede, Agememnon Wurst and E. Coli Biggs, to name a very, very few.
Funny words--Myrmidon, crepescular, succubus, screed, vigorish, on and on.
And of course, funny jokes, everywhere--"She quarreled with the nanny and accused her of brushing Misha's teeth sideways rather than up and down." "As we know, for centuries Rome regarded the Open Hot Turkey Sandwich as the height of licentiousness ..."
Allen is the absolute master of fusing the sublime with the absurd. The result is a book that makes you think as well as laugh. That's a combination you don't often see these days!
Typical Woody Allen story telling...a bit off-balance, wonderful humor
catchy narrative and dialogue. Easy read at the beach, on a lounge
or just before bedtime...will make you smile.
Woody Allen is one of those writes that you love or hate. And this book is no exception. I found particularly funny the way he laughs at science in "Strung Out" and philosophy in "Thus ate Zarathustra". In this last essay he says "Spinoza dined sparingly because he believed that God existed in everything and it's intimidating to wolf down a knish if you think you're ladling mustard onto the First Cause of All Things". This is sample of what you can expect in this book.
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