Getting Even
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780394473482 (0394473485)
Publish date: September 12th 1971
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Pages no: 151
Edition language: English
Another brief read of more than a dozen short pieces, but much more consistent in tone, pace, and humor than Without Feathers. While that earlier work felt unplanned, each of these are structured to be an overall funny event rather than an excuse to drop some quirky one-liners.
Getting Even makes Woody Allen look bad at times, for making it obvious that he has the perspective of a snotty intellectual; but the book is nevertheless hilarious. I learned of it when a friend in my college chess club showed me its story "The Gossage-Vardebedian Papers," in which two snotty intel...
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