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Title: My Life and Hard Times by James Thurber ISBN: 0-06-093308-9 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.94 (16 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Outstanding!
Comment: This was a very funny book, not crude at all, and absolutely the kind of writing that should have never gone "out of style." I have read many different kinds of books by the most varied group of writers, and this definitely is a book that must be read by any serious reader.
Rating: 5
Summary: Do yourself and everyone else a favor and READ THIS BOOK.
Comment: Other reviewers have said it before, but I feel the need to back them up even more: This book is a work of pure genius and originality.
I was lucky enough to discover James Thurber while in the 8th grade, after flipping ahead in my English book and reading "The Car We Had To Push." A year later, I stumbled across copies of this book and "The Thurber Carnival" (an anthology of all his books) at a Harper Collins discount book sale. I consider this book to be the greatest deal of my life, since I purchased it for fifty cents and now feel that I would have done the same if it had been fifty dollars instead.
My Life and Hard Times is only a quarter of an inch thick, disguising the awesome amount of humor it contains. When I packed for college, this was the first book to accompany me on my journey, and I still reread it once or twice a month. The stories can be enjoyed on their own, but when combined into a biography such as this, the realization that Thurber can take the most ordinary-seeming events in life and turn them into a riot of laughter. It almost makes *me* wish for a family as interesting as he makes his own out to be. The stories provide a good dose of nostalgia for those who remember life in the early twentieth century, but for the rest of us, it's a treat to hear the stories through the eyes of someone who lived through it.
I'll stop gushing about how much I absolutely adore this title and leave you with the best advice I can give: BUY THIS BOOK, and treasure it.
Rating: 5
Summary: A True Classic Side-Splitter
Comment: OF all the books of his period, James Thurber's "My Life and HArd Times" is a mirror into the mind of a true renaissance man, humorist extraordinaire, and story-teller. Ever since I was a teen reading this for the first time, I have kept a copy on my nighttable, for those evenings I needed a complete separation from reality. It has never failed me! Each story (which by now I have memorized) brings to mind the family quagmyres and dilemmas common to all, in a form only a genius like Thurber could do. His talent in a far simpler age lives well beyond him, and will forever.
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Title: The Thurber Carnival by James Thurber ISBN: 0060932872 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: My World and Welcome to It by James Thurber ISBN: 0156623447 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: June, 1969 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Fables for Our Time by James Thurber ISBN: 0060909994 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 23 April, 1983 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Beast in Me and Other Animals by James Thurber ISBN: 015610850X Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: October, 1973 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: James Thurber: Writings and Drawings (Library of America, 90) by James Thurber, Garrison Keillor ISBN: 1883011221 Publisher: Library of America Pub. Date: October, 1996 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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