BOOK REVIEW: MERE ANARCHY by Woody Allen

Check with your doctor if you have a heart condition before you read this book. If you don’t burst an artery, you’re sure to bust a gut while you laugh your head off. This is the first collection of humor pieces by Woody Allen in 25 years. Timeless. A riot. The one piece called “The Rejection” made me fall off my chair. (That has only happened once before this while I read something humorous “The way the Cookie Crumbles’ which I wrote myself.)

“The Rejection” is about education and social status, gained and lost, when Boris Ivanoviich had problems trying to enroll his three year-old son in the ”very best nursery school in Manhattan.” Make a note to read this one. It is a must read. If you don’t buy a copy of the book, go borrow a copy of MERE ANARCHY from your public library. Read “The Rejection” segment, please.

From the back cover:

“… features Allen’s unique perspective on subjects ranging from nanny “tell-alls” (“Nanny Dearest”) to clothes that smell like twice-cooked pork (“Sam, You Made the Pants Too Fragrant”) to film camp (“Calisthenics, Poison Ivy, Final Cut — I really loved this one, too! — to a hard-boiled look at a dishy dame and an expensive truffle (“How Deadly Your Taste Buds, My Sweet”) ….

This would make a nice gift for a college freshman because Allen doesn’t use hundred dollar words, he uses thousand dollar words. Your student will wear out his dictionary upon finishing Allen’s book collection, but don’t be frightened. Even if your vocabulary is poor, when you skip/ignore the really big words, you still will be enriched with laughter.

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