Getting Even

by Woody Allen

Book Overview

The classic, with 316,000 copies sold to date. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394473485
• Release Date: September 1971
• Publisher: Random House
• Length: 151 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Exceptionally Funny

My english teacher,who used to stalk Mr.Allen, assigned this book to us this year im m a sophomore in HS and take honors english . I loved the book and it is super funny. We have a deli by school and one day one of the kids i nour class took getting even to the deli and started reading it aloud, everyone who was there for lunch laughed endlessly. I would reccomend this book to anyone, its a great read.

Laugh out loud funny

Woody Allen's movies have pretty much left me dissappointed over the last 10 years or so, but this but puts me in stiches every time I pick it up. I've had this for years and it still has the power to make me laugh out loud while reading it.

A Classic with HILARIOUS Woody Allen Essays

Getting Even is brilliant. It is a short book collection of 17 of the funniest essays that Woody Allen has ever written. I found myself laughing out loud all over the place, and actually finished this book in two brief settings. I generally like to read 1-2 essays a day, but with each one, I wanted more.Death Knocks is one of the essays in this book that really got me going. It was so damn funny. It felt like a funny version of Ingmar Bergman's Seventh Seal... where the person meant to die will not allow Death to take him. I loved it. A Look at Organized Crime was another absolutely hilarious essay written as you can imagine. Finally The Gossage-Vardebedian Papers has got to be one of the funniest essays ever penned. It is the exchange of letters between two chess players as they try to make sense of a game that they are having through the mail. I'm telling you, my gut was bursting. This is a great place to get started when reading Woody Allen novels. There are no plays contained within as are in his book Without Feathers, but the essays are of a much higher caliber. I know you are going to love this one. Happy reading!

Nothing Compares

Nothing can compare to this book and also Side Effects and Without Feathers, by Allen. Dave Barry is funny (although not as funny in recent years). Douglas Adams is hilarious, but he writes novels. These "nonfiction" pieces and short stories by Woody Allen are the funniest things ever written. And if you're concerned because you don't like Woody's whining style in his stand-up and movies, be assured you can't do that in prose. They are two distinct styles and you probably wouldn't even know it was Woody if not for his name on the cover. Read at least one of Woody's three books -- or at least one story from one of these books. Make that one page. If you don't love it, you can put it back on the shelf and at least know you didn't let something fantastic slip by unread.

Monty Python in New Yorkish and with a point

Even for people who do not like Woody Allen's movies, his satiric books must give a great laugh!This man is so intelligent that he allows himself to un-taboo'ize just about everything. He makes fun of religion without being blasphemic, about stereotypes without being prejudicial, and so on.This is the most sophisticated fun any American has ever come up with!