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Title: Last Words: A Memoir
ISBN: 1439172951
Author:
George Carlin
Publicate Date: 2009-11-10
Publish: 2009-11-10
List Price: $26.99
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Format: Hardcover
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1: Good Times
After reading this book, I regret not having heard/seen/read more of Carlin's work. He tells it like it is and does not pull any punches. He lays it all out there in this 'sortabiograpy'. Despite being a biographical work, this is a funny book. It is hard to translate from the stage to written word, but somehow Carlin pulls it off in the short pieces detailing parts of his stand up. This book takes you through his childhood and his career in great detail, yet the tone is always approachable and appreciatively humorous. Carlin owns his mistakes and I appreciate him all the more for it.
I would give the book five stars, but the formatting for the Kindle is full of typos. I hope Amazon can remedy this.
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2: Why not to drink excessively or get stuck on drugs.........
Guess I should have seen it coming, but it was a good book in that it didn't hide much. However, it wasn't full of funny things, but definitely life's lessons. I was glad that I'd read George Carlin's Last Words and I passed the book on to our son George to read.
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3: CARLIN ON CARLIN
George Carlin is one of the finest comedians of the age. Now he gives to us even though he is gone in LAST WORDS. We get a good look inside the life and times. Watch him work his way up, fall and get up again. If you are a fan this book is a must, Tony Hendra does a great job forming this biography. This is a good read. RECOMMENDED
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4: Inside the mind of Carlin
This book is the perfect conclusion to George Carlin's library of work. It is well written yet earthy enough to bring you into an understanding of what made Carlin Carlin.
No words can do justice to this. Carlin was so much more than a "stand up". He was philosopher, social scientist and many other things, the most important being a thinking logical human being. As I read it, I could almost hear Carlin's voice reading it to me.
Get this book. Read it. Understand it. Then get your friends this book to read and to understand.
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5: Its an OK book.
When George was alive, he made the world laugh, when he died, he made the world cry.
But even thou this book is well writen' it doesn't feel like George himself would say some of these things in here. Now Tony Hendra is a good writer and an old friend of George, but in most of this biography I just didn't get that George Carlin feeling, it feels like more of something that Tony would say then anything else. Its as if George had two different personalities. One that when he's on stage, and a complete different person off stage, like night and day. And in parts of the book Tony keeps quoting stuff that I know George would never say, like; Thanking God that he didn't die from one of his hart-a-tacks, or saying stuff like; "The good lord blessed us with a child." Dose that sound like George to you?
But up near the last few chapters he starts to quote a lot of his on-stage routine like; Baby on board, Seven words, stuff like that. But at the last page it'll really does sound like something that ole George would say and it will make you choke-up a bit. George Carlin was the best. The comedy world will never be the same without him.
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