Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780739325520 (0739325523)
Publish date: September 27th 2005
Publisher: Random House Large Print
Pages no: 400
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Humor,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Comedy,
Book Club,
Media Tie In,
Adult,
Biography Memoir,
Tv
Alan Alda provided me with one of the great comic insights when I saw him in an interview one late night in a hotel room somewhere I can't even recall. I find it's affected every form of performed comedy I've seen since. He said that there are two kinds of funny people: People who say funny thing...
My dad use to watch M*A*S*H when I was a kid but I would usually leave the room or pick up a book to block it out, war stuff scared me and was never my thing. Those little snippets were all I knew about Alan Alda but the title of this one called my name.This isn’t one of those gossipy tell-alls and...
It was okay, and very much not what one thinks of when one thinks of celebrity memoirs. Alda's open, ingenuous, vulnerable and the personification of Sensitive New Age Kinda Guy, and therein lies my issue. He makes me tired, he's so good and sweet and caring. His stories are interesting and the narr...
The paperback edition of this autobiography looks slim, but don't be fooled: its 235 pages are packed with striking anecdotes and the philosophical musings of a highly intelligent and sensitive man with very much his own unique outlook on life. The quick tongue and passionate humanism of Hawkeye in ...
This book was a huge disappointment. I really like Alda, and I thought this would be more interesting and entertaining. A lot of it is dreadfully boring, with a few interesting parts thrown in.
14 years ago
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