- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: Fourth Estate; First Edition edition (16 Oct 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0007214278
- ISBN-13: 978-0007214273
- Product Dimensions: 27.4 x 19.8 x 3.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 368,947 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'The volume does have a peculiar fascination, its tone set by the initial photograph of an elderly Milligan gripping the famous red This Is Your Life book in front of him as if it might afford some kind of defence. Much of the volume reproduces actual pages of handwriting, or handtyping. Naked script and unedited work generate a strange intimacy as one of Britain's most famously depressed and mercurial human beings bounces from mood to mood, some of them apocalyptic. It's hard not to love the ones who make us laugh. And it's hard to get enough of what we love.' A.L.Kennedy, Guardian
‘This book gives us the feeling of looking over Spike’s shoulder as he worked and is the nearest we are ever likely to get to the real Spike Milligan. It most certainly complements Norma’s earlier “Spike: An Intimate Memoir.“ Most definitely a book for all lovers of Spike’s work.’ Mike Brown, Chairman of the Goon Show Preservation Society
‘This is a book which any Spike Milligan fan pore over for hours.’ The Oldie
'For lovers of vintage British comedy.' The Gloss Magazine
Mike Brown, Chairman of the Goon Show Preservation Society
'...the nearest we are ever likely to get to the real Spike
Milligan.'
Milligan.'
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This isn't on a par with Spike Milligan's "proper" books, nor does it really try to be. What it does do though is provide an interesting and often surprising insight into 'behind the scenes' of Spike's life, and a little peep into the mind of a comic genius with some problems with depression.
Notes, sketches and letters are shown in a very raw form. Some of the handwriting is barely legible (though sometimes typed equivalents are also provided). There are crossings-outs, angry scribblings, and some obvious sadness. There are also some beautiful children's poems and some fantastic jokes.
The material draws more from the 1970s and 1980s, so Goon Show fans might find that all a bit under-represented. At under 250 pages, many of which don't actually contain much, it won't take you a long time to get through.
Don't expect a polished, laugh-a-minute anthology, but this book will still entertain in the way only Spike Milligan knew how.
Notes, sketches and letters are shown in a very raw form. Some of the handwriting is barely legible (though sometimes typed equivalents are also provided). There are crossings-outs, angry scribblings, and some obvious sadness. There are also some beautiful children's poems and some fantastic jokes.
The material draws more from the 1970s and 1980s, so Goon Show fans might find that all a bit under-represented. At under 250 pages, many of which don't actually contain much, it won't take you a long time to get through.
Don't expect a polished, laugh-a-minute anthology, but this book will still entertain in the way only Spike Milligan knew how.
6 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
It's because it is rubbish. To photo copy Spike's diary from 1972 on days when nothing much was happening and take up a whole page to do it just about shows how Norma Farnes is scraping the barrel to fill a book that should have remained unpublished. My wife bought it me as a Christmas present because she knows I am a great fan of Spike's. I wished she hadn't bothered. Save your money and buy one of his war memoirs. Read that instead and have a great laugh!
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