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-- Ogden Nash

"Thurber's My Life and Hard Times is just about the best thing I've ever read." --Ce texte provient de la Paperback �dition.

-- From the Afterword by Russell Baker

"Possibly the shortest and most elegant autobiography ever written." --Ce texte provient de la Paperback �dition.

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5.0�toiles sur 5 I laughed so hard it hurt!, Jui 24 2004

Par	Alice M. Wollman (Leona Valley, CA USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires

This review is from: My Life And Hard Times (Paperback)

I first read this book as a summer assignment a quarter of a century ago. I picked up this old book again this year, and believe it to be written by arguably one of the best humorists in the last one hundred years. James Thurber is a master at the art of language and never fails to tickle the proverbial funny bone. For an easy, lighthearted read, this book is well worth the money and will likely become a favorite for your own private library.

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5.0�toiles sur 5 A True Classic Side-Splitter, Avril 8 2003

Par	Marc Mogil, J.D. (Great Neck, NY USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires

This review is from: My Life And Hard Times (Paperback)

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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5.0�toiles sur 5 Elegantly simple and hilarious to boot, Mars 18 2002

Par	Catherine S. Vodrey (East Liverpool, Ohio United States) - Voir tous mes commentaires (REAL NAME)

This review is from: My Life And Hard Times (Paperback)

James Thurber actually does tell something of the story of his life in this famed biography, but mostly he just moseys along telling stories with his trademark dry, mopey wit. The very first chapter--"The Night the Bed Fell"--begins with the laconic observation, "I suppose that the high-water mark of my youth in Columbus, Ohio, was the night the bed fell on my father."

Thurber goes on to explain how his grandmother felt that electricity leaked if not plugged up, a preoccupation that kept her busy filling in every gap in every lamp or outlet in the house.

All the chapters are pretty much entitled with the name of some highlight of Thurber's Ohio youth: "The Day the Dam Broke" and "The Night the Ghost Got In" and that sort of thing. What the chapters all have in common is that Thurber is a brilliant storyteller who manages to make the most plebian, everyday happenings matters of sparkling humor.

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5.0�toiles sur 5 Do yourself and everyone else a favor and READ THIS BOOK.
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. Read more

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5.0�toiles sur 5 Outstanding!
This was a very funny book, not crude at all, and absolutely the kind of writing that should have never gone "out of style. Read more

Publi� le Juil 14 2001 par Maslow

5.0�toiles sur 5 Oustanding!
This was a very funny book, not crude at all, and absolutely the kind of writing that should have never gone "out of style. Read more

Publi� le Juil 14 2001 par Maslow