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Marx & Lennon: The Parallel Sayings Paperback – November 1, 2005

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Selected by bestselling author Joey Green, a collection of 400 quotes by Marx and Lennon, juxtaposed to reveal their hilarious similarities.

No, not THAT Marx and Lenin! Here's a much funnier and artistically talented pair from history. Revolutionaries in their own rights, John Lennon and Groucho Marx did not share much common ground with their Communist namesakes, or even with each other. Where they do overlap is through their very humorous and irreverent takes on life. Editor Joey Green brings together a collection of more than 400 Groucho Marx and John Lennon sayings, juxtaposed to emphasize their hysterical and unexpected similarities.

With a foreword by Yoko Ono and an introduction by Groucho's son, Arthur Marx.

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November 1, 2005
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5.5 x 0.68 x 8.25 inches
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1401308090
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978-1401308094
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"Not Karl Marx and Vladimir Ilyich Lenin--Groucho Marx and John Lennon! In this small volume, Green collects some 400 (mostly) humorous quotes from the pair and juxtaposes them on each page. . . . Some are surreal; others prosaic. . . . their quotes are beautifully paralleled here. Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, has written the foreword while Marx's son, Arthur, has contributed the introduction. This is an interesting and inexpensive gift book for bathroom readers, quote-lovers, or fans of either one of these two men." --Library Journal

"For a laugh . . . Quotes proving that Groucho Marx and John were soulmates. Yoko wrote a foreword, so there must be something to it." --People

About the Author

Joey Green, a former contributing editor to National Lampoon, is the author of more than sixty books. He has appeared on the Tonight Show, Good Morning America, The View, and other national television shows, and has been profiled in the New York Times, People, USA Today, and the Washington Post. A native of Miami, Florida, and a graduate of Cornell University (where he founded the campus humor magazine, the Cornell Lunatic, still publishing to this day), he lives in Los Angeles.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hachette Books; First Edition (November 1, 2005)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 274 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1401308090
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1401308094
Grade level ‏ : ‎ 8 and up
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.68 x 8.25 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #671,363 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #152 in History Humor (Books)
- #338 in Political Humor (Books)
- #468 in Quotation Reference Books

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Joey Green, a former contributing editor to National Lampoon and a former advertising copywriter at J. Walter Thompson, is the author of more than sixty (yes, sixty) books, including "Not So Normal Norbert" with James Patterson, "Contrary to Popular Belief," "Clean It! Fix It! Eat It!," the best-selling "Joey Green's Magic Brands" series, "The Mad Scientist Handbook" series, and "You Know You've Reached Middle Age If . . ."--to name just a few.

Joey has appeared on dozens of national television shows, including "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," "Good Morning America," and "The View." He has been profiled in the "New York Times," "People" magazine, the "Los Angeles Times," the "Washington Post," and "USA Today," and he has been interviewed on hundreds of radio shows.

A native of Miami, Florida, and a graduate of Cornell University (where he was the political cartoonist on the "Cornell Daily Sun" and founded the campus humor magazine, the "Cornell Lunatic," still publishing to this very day), he lives in South Florida.

You can visit him at www.joeygreen.com

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greetings comrade

Reviewed in the United States on April 27, 2017

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Bought as a gift for a friend moving to the peoples Republic of Vermont. It was perfect for the occasion. I wore my Che shirt.

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R. Tucker

Marx & Lennon: The Parallel Sayings

Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2013

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Not as philosophical as I had hoped, and not as in depth as "Jesus & Buddha: The Parallel Sayings". It is a fun companion piece, and a fun read it in its own right.

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Cher Amoya

While I enjoy the witticism's of both

Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2015

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While I enjoy the witticism's of both, the connections in sayings, and Groucho and John, are tenuous, if not absurd. Reading the introduction, I was shocked at the straws being grasped at to make the two relate. They were both born in October! Groucho Marx had a book of pictures of him in beds, and John Lennon had a Bed-in! They both wore a mustache! Someone kept making connections with Karl Marx and John Lennon, and that's funny cause Groucho's last name is Marx!

The sayings are connected by having a similar subject, not necessarily similar themes. Every once in awhile they would say something similar, but for the most part I just was reading one Marx quote and then an unrelated Lennon quote.

While I am disappointed, I did enjoy reading some quotes from both. So... there's that!

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J. Clarke

Apparently there are no parallel sayings...

Reviewed in the United States on December 16, 2009

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I bought this for a friend, but snuck a peek when it arrived at mine. As it turns out none of the saying are parallel in meaning, John and Grouch do however seem to know a lot of the same words. The selections seem to be based on quotes where both men use one or more of the same word(s) in a sentence. I think somebody got stoned and decided to write a book about their two favorite people. Nice for a good laugh, but probably not what you're expecting.

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Indoctrinating a new generation of devout Marxist-Lennonists

Reviewed in the United States on November 1, 2005

I never bought the Fireside Theater comedy album "How Can You Be In Two Places At Once When You're Not Anywhere At All?," but I was greatly impressed by the cover shot. It showed that particular gang of lunatics posing like they were standing on top of Lenin's tomb in Red Square in Moscow beneath posts of Groucho Marx and John Lennon (which the n's in Lennon's name backwards like they were Cyrillic letters). By the time I saw that album cover I already knew that I was a devout Marxist of the Brothers kind and the idea that John Lennon was more worthy of emulation than Vladimir Lenin was pretty much fully formed in my mind as well. Ever since the names of Marx and Lennon have been linked in my mind, and apparently Joey Green, best known as the inventor of wacky uses for brand-name products, is on the same wavelength as well.

"Marx & Lennon: The Parallel Sayings" juxtaposes sayings by Groucho Marx from his movies and assorted writings from those by John Lennon from his songs and assorted writings. For example, in "The Coconuts," Groucho said, "One for all and all for me and me for you and three for five and six for a quarter," while in "I Am the Walrus," Lennon sang, "I am me as you are he as you are me and we are all together."

Eerie, huh?

More than a Fireside Theater album cover what this book will remind you of those comparisons between Jesus and Elvis that pop up all over the place (You know, the ones that remind us Jesus said, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" while Elvis sang, "Don't be cruel"). Fortunately Green is treading on less sacred ground with this collection. Plus he comes up with about 400 of these parallel sayings, which range from the wistfully wry to the potentially profound. But mostly this book is fun and a timely reminder that pop culture icons speak more eloquently and more truthfully than politicians or pundits (the latter seem to be doing more talking than the former these days).

Yoko Ono provides an introduction to the book to give her blessing (Is this a counterpunch to Paul McCartney's attempt to have all of those Beatle songs now be listed as having been written by McCartney & Lennon rather than Lennon & McCartney? You decide), and then the first chapter, "Parallel Sayings, Parallel Lives" looks at the coincidental similarities between the two men, born 50 years apart, both in October, both the witty and sarcastic leaders of two of the most recognizable groups of the 20th century. The fact that they admired each other just makes it all that much more interesting. Besides, if I were still a student I would just be dying to find a way to use one of these sets of parallel sayings as the attention getting quotes at the start of a paper.

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Steve S.

Funny!

Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2019

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The Groucho quotes are all pretty much hilarious, as he always was. Some of the Lennon quotes are also very funny and closely related, theme wise, to the Groucho quotes, but some those are just lyric quotes from his solo or Beatles songs. So, even though not all of the quotes are really connected, the book is still worth the buy as you'll probably laugh out loud with some of the quotes from both or either of them.

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