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Before Woody Allen set his sights on becoming the next Ingmar Bergman, he made a fleeting (but largely successful) attempt at becoming the next S.J Perelman. Side Effects, his third and final collection of humor pieces, shows his efforts. These essays appeared in The New Yorker during the late 1970s, as he showed more and more discontent with his funnyman status. Fear not, humor fans--Allen's still funny. He is less manic, however, than in his positively goofy Getting Even/Without Feathers days, and this makes Side Effects a more nuanced read. Woody picks and chooses when to flash the laughs, as in an article
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Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
Release date: 12 September 1986
ISBN-10 : 0345343352 | ISBN-13: 9780345343352
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Release date: 12 September 1986
ISBN-10 : 0345343352 | ISBN-13: 9780345343352
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"It is rare that I laugh out loud at a book when reading it, and extremely rare is that I do it repeatedly with the same book, but the literary works of Woody Allen from the 70s do it for me. Simultaneously intelligent and idiotically stupid, but in a very clever way, and loaded with a vast scale of cultural references."