From the celebrated author of The Joys of Yiddish comes this delectable collection of more than 5,000 wisecracks, ad-libs, puns, malapropisms, and one-liners. "A big, sprawling funny book . . . apt, wonderfully precise."--The Philadephia Inquirer.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0
Funny and Wise:
This is a very nice collection of quotations. It's fairly comprehensive and organized topically--though it could benefit from an index of authors. I added over 100 of its entries to my quote collection. Many are humorous, and a great many have wisdom and significance. Some of my favorites are: p. 53: One beautiful morning, El Greco sat in a room with the curtains tightly drawn. Invited to go out for a walk, El Greco said, "No, the sunlight would disturb the light that is shining within me."
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When you come to a fork in the road;take it.:
As far as a book on wit goes,this is as good as they get.What I liked best was that this book was by someone who spent his life as a fan,observer,practitioner and most of all a student of humor.This book consists almost entirely of very short pieces of wit;often referred to as one-liners.Rosten has done a good job of explaining all the various forms of 'short' wit;such as,malapropisms,neologisms,epigrams,images,observations,gags,sparkling descriptions ,soleolecisms,wisecracks,typos,transpositions,and so... more info
It's A Great Book:
I have been very happy with this purchase. It serves my needs nicely. I always have a reference handy for birthdays,anniversaries and any other type of special occassion cards.
A Quotable Carnival Indeed:
A fun grab-bag of quotes, not especially rigorously sourced or verified. Rosten quotes himself more than is seemly, but "He that tooteth not his own horn, the same shall go untootethed." A fine souvenir of the mensch who popularized Yiddish culture in America. Hours of fun & sharing guaranteed.
