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Side Effects

by Woody Allen

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I may now be allergic to the early, funny Woody Allen. Much of this reads like a U of C undergrad badly imitating Groucho Marx. There are some high points. "He suggested man was a creature doomed to exist in 'time' even though that was not where the action was." The Kafka parody "The Diet". The variation on Tolstoy's Death of Ivan Ilyich "The Shallowest Man." The restaurant reviews in "Fabrizio's: Criticism and Response." ( )
  rameau | Aug 3, 2011 |
Pretty much like reading a Woody Allen movie. Funny...check. Pretentious...check. Story lines involving a nervous man's infidelities with women who are probably more attractive and intelligent than he could get under normal circumstances...check. Reader thinking to herself 'At least it wasn't as bad as Scoop' upon finishing...check. ( )
  llamagirl | May 31, 2010 |
From drole to side-splitting, I read these long before he got world famous, if you can read them as if you never heard of WA then you might enjoy them anew. ( )
  ChristopherTurner | Feb 18, 2009 |
Absolutely hilarious. You probably need to be in the right mood to enjoy it. I also had another Allen book but I can't find it right now. Both are fantastic if you can get into a downright silly mood. ( )
  dryfly | Jan 11, 2007 |
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It has been four weeks and it is still hard for me to believe Sandor Needleman is dead. I was present at the cremation and at his son's request, brought the marshmallows, but few of us could think of anything but our pain.
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Before Woody Allen set his sights on becoming the next Ingmar Bergman, he made a fleeting (but largely successful) attempt at becoming the next S.J Perelman. Side Effects, his third and final collection of humor pieces, shows his efforts. These essays appeared in The New Yorker during the late 1970s, as he showed more and more discontent with his funnyman status. Fear not, humor fans--Allen's still funny. He is less manic, however, than in his positively goofy Getting Even/Without Feathers days, and this makes Side Effects a more nuanced read. Woody picks and chooses when to flash the laughs, as in an article discussing UFOs:
[I]n 1822 Goethe himself notes a strange celestial phenomenon. "En route home from the Leipzig Anxiety Festival," he wrote, "I was crossing a meadow, when I chanced to look up and saw several fiery red balls suddenly appear in the southern sky. They descended at a great rate of speed and began chasing me. I screamed that I was a genius and consequently could not run very fast, but my words were wasted. I became enraged and shouted imprecations at them, whereupon they flew away frightened. I related this story to Beethoven, not realizing he had already gone deaf, and he smiled and nodded and said, "Right."
Though not as explosively, mind-alteringly funny as his earlier books, Side Effects is still loaded with chuckles; the much-anthologized "Kugelmass Episode" is worth the price of the book. For fans of his films--or for anyone who wants a final glimpse of Woody in his first, best role as court jester, Side Effects is a must-have. --Michael Gerber

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