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Loading... Marx & Lennon: The Parallel Sayingsby Joey Green
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This book is an easy read, and has a great many super quotes. It is an unfortunate book, however, in that the juxtaposition of the quotes, purporting to demonstrate similarities between Groucho Marx and John Lennon are actually a mish-mash of unrelated quotes stuck together in a sort of bizarre manner, much like the Google Ads that show up on websites based on a keyword that is only poorly understood by the cyberbrain listing them. Just because both of them use the word "wife" or "pig" or "neck tie" in a statement does not mean that the statements are demonstrating a commonality of minds - only the fact that they are both speaking (roughly) the same language. Though I do think you could find a great many areas of similarity between Marx and Lennon, the entire book is an exasperating conglomeration of squished together quotations that often clash like mis-matched reds. Read and enjoy it for the quotes; ignore the attempts of the author to make something more out of it. He's just playing mind games with you in the end, and if you have any critical thinking ability at all, you'll resist his attempts to sucker you into his strange, Google-surreal world. ( ) no reviews | add a review
When paired together, the names Marx and Lennon call to mind two very influential men of similar intellectual leanings who left an indelible mark on history as well as modern culture. Of course, not many people think to pair up Groucho Marx and John Lennon, but that's exactly what editor Joey Green has done to some hilarious results. For example: One for all and all for me and me for for you and three for five and six for a quarter.' - Marx 'I am me as you are he as you are me and we are all together.' - Lennon' No library descriptions found. |
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