The Woody Allen Collection: Without Feathers, Getting Even, Mere Anarchy, Side Effects

The Woody Allen Collection: Without Feathers, Getting Even, Mere Anarchy, Side Effects: Woody Allen - writer, director, and actor - can now add narrator to his long list of achievements, as he's teamed up with Audible to make his best-selling books available in audio for the very first time. The Woody Allen Collection, featuring four of his classic short-story books, highlights the comedian's biting wit and signature style - performed as only he can. These hilarious stories examine the deepest of human questions from the highest heights of absurdity. Allen muses on the relativity of space-time and how it can make a person late for work, the Cosa Nostra's office-supply spending habits, the Frean - a sea monster with the body of a crab and the head of a certified public accountant - and much more. Everything is fair game, including art, food, crime, sex, death, and dentists. As the New York Times raved, included are "brilliant flights of fancy whose comic detail and inspired silliness are at once dramatic and controlled... by the celebrated stand-up Flaubert." The Collection includes Woody Allen's four books Without Feathers, Side Effects, Mere Anarchy, and Getting Even, as well as an exclusive interview conducted with the author/narrator, in which he discusses the process, challenges, and rewards or recording his books for the first time.

"Throughout my life, literally thousands of people have made me feel inadequate, but none more so than Woody Allen." (Larry David, Producer, Writer, Actor)"Woody Allen brought modern comedy to the cinema screen." (Ricky Gervais)

• The Woody Allen Collection: Without Feathers, Getting Even, Mere Anarchy, Side Effects (Unabridged) - iTunes Audiobook

  Price

  $29.95 Download on iTunes
  (as of 2010-08-31 7:50 PDT)

  Publisher

  Audible, Inc.

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  Apple iTunes Store

  Format

  iTunes Audiobook

  Publish Date

  Jul 20, 2010

  Sales Rank

  28

  Length

  12 hours 26 minutes

  Narrator

  Narrator:Woody Allen Preview

  Presented by

  Audible.com

  Product Description / Editorial Review

  Woody Allen - writer, director, and actor - can now add narrator to his long list of achievements, as he's teamed up with Audible to make his best-selling books available in audio for the very first time. The Woody Allen Collection, featuring four of his classic short-story books, highlights the comedian's biting wit and signature style - performed as only he can. These hilarious stories examine the deepest of human questions from the highest heights of absurdity. Allen muses on the relativity of space-time and how it can make a person late for work, the Cosa Nostra's office-supply spending habits, the Frean - a sea monster with the body of a crab and the head of a certified public accountant - and much more. Everything is fair game, including art, food, crime, sex, death, and dentists. As the New York Times raved, included are "brilliant flights of fancy whose comic detail and inspired silliness are at once dramatic and controlled... by the celebrated stand-up Flaubert." The Collection includes Woody Allen's four books Without Feathers, Side Effects, Mere Anarchy, and Getting Even, as well as an exclusive interview conducted with the author/narrator, in which he discusses the process, challenges, and rewards or recording his books for the first time.
  
  "Throughout my life, literally thousands of people have made me feel inadequate, but none more so than Woody Allen." (Larry David, Producer, Writer, Actor)"Woody Allen brought modern comedy to the cinema screen." (Ricky Gervais) — Source: Apple iTunes Store

  Customer Reviews

  Allen's comedy is in a class all it's own

  I first saw Woody's performances a long time ago in the Village, back when it was The Village (when private affairs were somewhat more private than they are now) and that's how his professional works should be reviewed. Allen is one of the finest comedic minds of the 20th Century.That said, this is supposed to be for reviews of the artist's works, not his private life. Are complaints that Wagner was an bigot and anti-semite appropriate in reviews of Tannhäuser or Parsifal? No, they belong in a review of Wagner himself (which is where they remain and continue more than 100 years after his death).Rants about Allen's personal life choices, in so far as they do not impact the works for sale, are also innappropriate here. Allen is a first-rate comedian of the highest order, and this audiobook exemplifies him at his best.

  Rating: 5
  The Woody Allen Collection: Without Feathers, Getting Even, Mere Anarchy, Side Effects (Unabridged) review by DesignatedDriver, 2010-08-21

  Do you know what a review is???

  For those of you that commented on Woody's personal life, please, shut up! This is a place to review the Audiobook. Period. If you want to comment on his personal life, fine. But please do it somewhere else! Thank you!This is classic Woody Allen with his biting wit and signature style. The intellectual style of his humor is brought down to a level that anyone can enjoy by his use of his self depreciating comedy and in many ways his psychological insecurities that we can all in some way identify with. With Allen we see someone who is trying desperately to get through this life while at the same time dealing with all of those self doubts that we all deal with. By using sarcasm Woody allows us to look at ourselves and see how many times we follow the same destructive path of making a bigger deal out of something than it really is. By using humor he is able to break down everyday problems into little psychological questions that make us all laugh at life and ourselves

  Rating: 4
  The Woody Allen Collection: Without Feathers, Getting Even, Mere Anarchy, Side Effects (Unabridged) review by JIMMY"S, 2010-08-18

  The lost art of absurdity.

  I'm only in my thirties so a fair chunk of the references go right past me, but I don't understand why more humorists aren't writing this way. I didn't laugh when I first read them, I giggled to myself and was humbled at how an author could be so intellectual and so silly at the same time. These books are a treasure. (Disclaimer, haven't read Mere Anarchy, wasn't aware of it before now)I can only imagine how his own personal narration will enhance the experience.

  Rating: 5
  The Woody Allen Collection: Without Feathers, Getting Even, Mere Anarchy, Side Effects (Unabridged) review by BlueJayC, 2010-07-28

  

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