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Title: Pure Drivel by Steve Martin ISBN: 0-7868-8505-X Publisher: Hyperion Pub. Date: 06 October, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.71 (140 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: "Pure Drivel" is a whimsical effort by Steve Martin.
Comment: I am a huge Steve Martin fan and have been since I was 12 years old an saw him do happy feet on "The Tonight Show." I believe every comedian has a medium that he/she excels at and their work in other media tend to be less successful. Steve is not a master of the short story a la Woody Allen. However, several of these pieces are brilliant and the overall quality of the book has a charming (if slight) tone which is an improvement over his first book "Cruel Shoes." "Pure Drivel" also is a tad short in length, but it does deliver some quality laughs. Occasionally he goes for the surreal moment rather than the uproariously comic, so don't expect literary versions of his film and TV work. This book is a must have for the serious student of Steve's work, and along with "Picasso at Lapine Agile" and "L.A. Story" demonstrates his evolution as an artist.
Rating: 4
Summary: Humor for the Super Literate
Comment: Steve Martin has fabricated his own genre of humor which began with Cruel Shoes. Ultra sophisticated short stories which contain all the depth, emotion, insight and revealing introspection of great literature but totally absurd. Steve Martin's "Pure Drivel" is exactly like painting the Mona Lisa under a moustache. Its the same silly joke as painting the moustache on the Mona Lisa. But Martin is showing off his talent by embellishing the ridiculous with greatness rather than the other way around. Not many people could pull it off. Its a very funny book and good bathroom reading when you want to spend ten minutes on the can. The humor is so sophisticated its best taken in one or two short sets than sucked in all at once. "Michael Jackson's Old Face" sounds like a great opportunity to take some cheap shots, but instead Martin turns it into a detailed descriptive stream of consciousness about the volley of facial expresssions between Michael Jackson meeting Walter Mathow from Michaels perspective. You really have to keep your brain in high gear for sustained periods. So its best taken in short sets or listened to with Steve Martin's readings on the CD.
Rating: 4
Summary: Thoroughly bizarre
Comment: Steve Martin is a funny guy. Almost always. Even when he's in a bad movie (and he's made his share), the man himself is usually funny. This book is a fantastic little piece in which he pretty much emptied his mind of all the screwy, random thoughts that had been rattling around and turned them into strange essays about... well... anything. Politics, a day in the garden... my personal favorite was a great piece about a sudden shortage of a certain punctuation mark. The synapses in this man's brain make quantum leaps to connect the oddest things and turn them into something utterly histerical.
Drivel? Perhaps. But it's among the best drivel I've ever read.
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Title: The Pleasure of My Company: A Novel by Steve Martin ISBN: 0786869216 Publisher: Hyperion Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Shopgirl by Steve Martin ISBN: 0786885688 Publisher: Theia Pub. Date: 05 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Other Plays : Picasso at the LapinAgile, the Zig-Zag Woman, Patter for a Floating Lady, WASP by Steve Martin ISBN: 0802135234 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: October, 1997 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Cruel Shoes by Steve Martin ISBN: 0399123040 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: June, 1979 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Underpants, The a Play By Carl Sternheim by Steve Martin ISBN: 0786888245 Publisher: Hyperion Pub. Date: 20 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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