- Hardcover: 400 pages
- Publisher: Sidgwick & Jackson; illustrated edition edition (19 Aug 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0283070161
- ISBN-13: 978-0283070167
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.2 x 4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 941,185 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'his irreverence and absurdism [provided] the brightest creative
spark within the [Monty Python] group.' --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
spark within the [Monty Python] group.' --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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The definitive collection of writings by Python Graham Chapman
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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
No doubt about it, Graham Chapman was a loony. But a wonderful and funny loony as this book clearly shows. What's most revealing about this book are the (fairly) serious essays on serious topics such as over-population. But being a Python he can't keep itstraight for too long and he ends up making some valid points whilst making you laugh--the best medicine from the good Doctor! I also enjoyed the foreword which acts as a brief life history of Chapman, giving the reader a good insight into how he ticked. Weird, funny and touching. Great book.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Graham Chapman is the most mysterious of the Monty Python team, what with him being dead and therefore unavailable for documentaries, interviews and Monty Python tribute nights on Channel 4. However this book redressed the balance- a very thorough collection of Chapman's sketches, speeches, serious essays, letters, and select extracts from his book "Liar's Autobiography", many of which you haven't seen before.
It really shows Chapman's breadth and depth. He was so intelligent, both broadly as a doctor and an observer of the human race and on specific issues such as homosexual rights, and with a scathing wit.
My sole criticism of the book would be that it is arranged by group- all the letters in a group, then all the sketches, and so on. When I re-read this book, as I will, I'll probably read it in a random order to get the full contrast between comedy and tragedy.
It really shows Chapman's breadth and depth. He was so intelligent, both broadly as a doctor and an observer of the human race and on specific issues such as homosexual rights, and with a scathing wit.
My sole criticism of the book would be that it is arranged by group- all the letters in a group, then all the sketches, and so on. When I re-read this book, as I will, I'll probably read it in a random order to get the full contrast between comedy and tragedy.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
A collection of monologues, letters, essays, teleplays, sketches and photos by the late Graham Chapman, edited together in this nice hardback book by Jim Yoakum.
Yoakum isn't much of a writer, but we're not here to read what he has to say. Unfortunately, he isn't much of an editor either. He puts sketches and stories that have appeared earlier in the book in again in a slightly different form and keeps repeating himself. And why he has picked what he has picked is a mystery.
Some of Chapman's stuff here is funny, some interesting, some weird and worrying. But what weighted it down for me was the constant reminder that the whole point to this book is that none of this was ever published or produced. Some of it wasn't meant to be - in which case, should we be reading it? But most of it was meant to be, only it never made it. So why not? Did Chapman fail? That's depressing. Did he think it was rubbish? Why do we have to read it? Did he die before he got the chance? That's depressing again.
So it is funny, although it could have been put together better, but it's all so melancholy.
Yoakum isn't much of a writer, but we're not here to read what he has to say. Unfortunately, he isn't much of an editor either. He puts sketches and stories that have appeared earlier in the book in again in a slightly different form and keeps repeating himself. And why he has picked what he has picked is a mystery.
Some of Chapman's stuff here is funny, some interesting, some weird and worrying. But what weighted it down for me was the constant reminder that the whole point to this book is that none of this was ever published or produced. Some of it wasn't meant to be - in which case, should we be reading it? But most of it was meant to be, only it never made it. So why not? Did Chapman fail? That's depressing. Did he think it was rubbish? Why do we have to read it? Did he die before he got the chance? That's depressing again.
So it is funny, although it could have been put together better, but it's all so melancholy.
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A really cool book for Python lovers if you don't bother about having hardcovers. Worth buying, contains many works of Graham of different kinds and some kind words and memories of... Read more
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