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WITHOUT FEATHERS, GETTING EVEN, SIDE EFFECTS -- all in 1 volume Paperback – January 1, 1989

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Woody Allen’s prolific career as a comedian, writer, and filmmaker has now spanned more than six decades and multiple award winning films. Mr. Allen’s first screenplay was for What’s New Pussycat?, which was released in 1965. He has written and directed more than 45 feature films, including Annie Hall, Manhattan and more recently, Midnight in Paris, Blue Jasmine & Rainy Day in New York. Woody Allen is the author of Getting Even, Without Feathers, and Side Effects, among numerous other books.

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Tinkagain
5.0 out of 5 stars Still funny
Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2024
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50 years later, it is still genius
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Tony Colasurdo
5.0 out of 5 stars Absurd, silly and a treasure ...
Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2018
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If you are not sure what “Kine” are you will particularly love “The Scrolls”... and I’m sure the rest of this gem. Best summarized - this is a window into a comic genius mind - but maybe not for everyone and that’s ok. You either get it - or you don’t I’m afraid ... for those that do - you will love it
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L. Massaar
4.0 out of 5 stars Funny
Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2002
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Well, what can I say? This was written back in the early 70s but isn't dated and provokes a proverbial "laugh out loud" on the odd occasion. The humour is predictable, but not (I think) formulaic... probably represents Woody Allen's golden period, simple down-to-earth observations and silly notes to himself.
The two plays, especially "Death", are particularly good and show the dialogue is typical Woody Allen in top-form (eg. dealing with a Kafka-esque situation).
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Cynthia Dunaway
5.0 out of 5 stars Extremely funny.
Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2013
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I finally found this book after years of searching. I used to have one of the first editions of "WITHOUT FEATHERS", but lost it in the many moves I have made. Woody Allen is a magnificent writer and his humor cannot be beat. He is a true genious and it shows in this book. I especially recommend reading "the whore of mensa" , and "THE DEAD
SEA SCROLLS". This book has always cheered me up when I am down and still does.
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Andy McKinney
3.0 out of 5 stars Some gold there, but not much
Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2021
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Woody Allen has a lopsided look at the world but not a funny look at the world if we can use Without Feathers as an example. The longest piece in this collection of his 'comic' writings is a play called 'God'. It meanders in and out of reality. At one point the players on stage phone Woody at home to ask for help in finding an ending for the play. Members of the audience speak to the players and in one case, come on the stage to take part. Ok, I am down with all that. Just make it funny, not lame and depressing. We have a whole class of French and Swedish stage and cinema work to grab onto when we find ourselves insufficiently depressed.
From the play, speech by Diabetes, a Greek slave--
"What's the big deal about freedom? It's dangerous. To know one's place is safe. Don't you see, Doris,
governments change hands every wee, political leaders murder on another, cities are sacked, people are
tortured. If there's a war, who do you think he's killed? The free people. But we're safe because no matter
who's in power, they all need someone to do the heavy cleaning."
Gee, thanks for that Woody. This is not accurate historically, socially or most importantly, as a matter of humor.
He has a piece near the beginning of the book called "The Whore of Mensa" about brilliant young Brandise graduates that, for an hourly fee, will discuss Blake with wealthy men starved for culture. While not funny, it was sharp and cutting. It made me smile in a snide way to see him ridicule tremendously smart people who waste their brainpower on literary minutia. His "If the Impressionists Had Been Dentists" follows in a similar mode, making fun of the wave of exciting new perspectives in art at the begging of the 20th century. For Woody, the artists were shallow, damage, dishonest, and often jerks. Maybe so, like their pictures.
Anybody and posit that life is hard and then you die. Most 15-year-olds get it just fine. But we can find absurdist humor in old Monty Python skits and laugh.
Not here.
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Pete
5.0 out of 5 stars Insanely good book . Jesus
Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2022
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T. Fredricks
5.0 out of 5 stars Tickled pink from red faced to a numbed funny bone
Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2022
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Great gift for my new girlfriend Casey
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Charles Dawson
1.0 out of 5 stars Very Very Outdated
Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2020
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I knew I was in trouble when I'd read half the book and hadn't laughed yet. I bought it because I was irritated by the smug censorship of Hachette Book group. Thought police much ? Only the people you like are entitled to a voice ? So I had to buy something by Woody Allen. And while I am a huge fan of his early humor - stand-up, movies thru Hannah, none of that humor is here. Somebody should have protested this book. Sorry, it's just not funny.
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bresin dino
5.0 out of 5 stars Senza paracadute!
Reviewed in Italy on December 12, 2019
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Dopo aver letto e recensito Woody Allen on Woody Allen il libro intervista che si ferma ai primi anni novanta, mi ha incuriosito la sua attivita' di scrittore di prosa e teatro a partire dagli anni 60', come approccio ho scelto questo smilzo libricino di gag pieces teatrali brevi racconti comparsi anche su riviste newyorkesi. Su tutti the dead un noir su un gruppo di vigilantes notturni alla ricerca di un serial killer e God una tragedia greca, con attori dai nomi improbabili trichinosis phidippides, con tanto di coro e deus ex machina, ed attori ed autore alla ricerca di un finale nella piu' totale confusione. Per chi apprezza la comicita' jewish di Allen cinica e assurda, una fantasmagoria di invenzioni a raffica sui luoghi comuni del ristretto milieu della middle class newyorkese, questo e' un succinto ma gustoso antipasto. Ho visto in aereo, tornando dal Giappone a rainy day in New York, ottimi interpreti ma trama prevedibile, un puro esercizio di stile humor freddo e forzato, non l'Allen dissacrante che piace a me. Forse le 12 ore di viaggio richiedevano qualcosa di piu' stuzzicante!
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Jack Heslop
5.0 out of 5 stars Funny and engaging
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 19, 2018
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I bought this book because for some reason the "Complete" Prose of Woody Allen doesn't feature the plays Death and God, which were originally published in Without Feathers. Those who know Allen's work will be aware that Death was later used as the basis of his film Shadows and Fog, so maybe there was a copyright issue with a studio, or something in that line.

Anyway, Woody Allen is a great writer of humorous essays and stories, and Without Feathers is a joy to read if you appreciate his cynical, absurdist humour. The book touches on everything from Impressionist art to opera to civil disobedience, poetry, and, of course, existentialism (Allen's favourite theme) in his irreverent, anything-for-a-gag style. Death and God are both wonderful plays, Death about a cowardly salesman in a city at night, who's forced by his neighbours to join a vigilante group hunting a serial killer; and God an actor and writer trying to find an ending for their play, as the fourth wall is repeatedly exploded by increasing meta-awareness.

Allen's approach in his prose is to discuss and satirise literary trends of the past, "feasting on the fantasies of his favourite writers" as the Glasgow Herald put it. So he takes the work of the existentialists and adds to it his own comic spin. That might make it seem like you need to have read a hundred other books to "get" Without Feathers, but that's not the case. Though inspired by the past Allen's writing stands alone; there'll always be a gag that anyone can appreciate, even if your only experience of existentialism is wondering if you should keep waiting for the bus or just cut your losses and walk.
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Abhishek
5.0 out of 5 stars A great read.
Reviewed in India on May 9, 2016
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If one is familiar with certain important events in world history and also with some famous personalities, this book becomes even more enjoyable.

This is a book by one of the most gifted writers of humor and one must always be careful and mind his or her surroundings while reading this book as it can make you burst into laughter anywhere.

A great read.
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Nina
5.0 out of 5 stars OTTIMO ACQUISTO
Reviewed in Italy on May 19, 2020
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Ordine arrivato prima della data prevista.

Ottimo materiale

Consigliato sicuramente.
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bigfoot
5.0 out of 5 stars Allen at his best.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 29, 2015
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Excruciatingly funny collection; I lost my copy some years ago and it has been a treat to have this gem back in my possession. Be prepared for seriously aching sides.
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