Nice Shot, Snoopy

by Charles M. Schulz

Book Overview

More cartoons featuring America's funniest kids -- Peanuts! This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0449214044
• ISBN13: 9780449214046
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Length: 127 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.2" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Their problems are our problems, reading about theirs helps us deal with ours

Part of the appeal of Charlie Brown in the Peanuts comic strip is that nearly everyone has a better life than he does. Everything he does fails in one form or another, from trying to kick the football to flying a kite to being a friend. This book concentrates more on the other characters in the strip; a large number of the captions are about Snoopy, Woodstock and Spike. They too have their foibles and desires that remain unsatisfied. Yet through it all, we are amused, for while their problems are similar to ours, we can laugh at that the Peanuts characters because fundamentally they only exist in our minds. As we translate the marks on the paper into events we interpret in our own way, our similar problems become tempered and easier to deal with.

The best

This book has the last 4 months of 1984. I love this book. I love the comic when Schorder kisses Lucy but she thinks it was Snoopy. This book has comics from The Way of the Fussbudget is not Easy witch was the final Peanuts Classics. I love this book and you will be able to see this in the Complete Peanuts 1983-1984 in the year 2012.

Contains strips not easy to find elsewhere

This is one of the set of 99 Fawcett Crest Peanuts reprint books, and one of the few that is still in print (as of August 2000). Although the quality of the Fawcett Crest reprint books is generally not as high as that of the other standard reprint series (Peanuts Parade, Topper, Andrews & McMeel, etc.), this book is worth snapping up because it reprints strips from the Peanuts Parade book "The Way of the Fussbudget is Not Easy," which is difficult to find even on eBay. It's true that you may be able to find the Peanuts Classics reprint of the Parade book without too much difficulty, but the Classics version is defective and is missing many strips. If you are a serious Peanuts fan and enjoy seeing strips that you've never seen before, this book is a good one to get.Those who are not staunch fans of Peanuts, however, may wish to look elsewhere, because the strips in this book date from the early 1980's, which is a period when Peanuts started to decline in popularity. Strips from the late 1950's through the early 1970's have the broadest public appeal. One book you may want to consider is "Peanuts Treasury," which reprints some of the best Peanuts strips from the early 1960's.