- Hardcover: 384 pages
- Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd (2 Nov 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0340938463
- ISBN-13: 978-0340938461
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.8 x 4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 404,200 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'Linda Smith's everyday conversation contained more jokes than most comedy scripts and more social comment than most dramas.' -- INDEPENDENT 'One of the best-loved and funniest voices on radio.' -- EVENING STANDARD 'The funniest woman I have ever known.' -- SIMON HOGGART 'The many tributes last week describing the late Linda Smith as one of the funniest women in Britain have got it wrong. Linda was simply one of the funniest people in Britain and her gifts were such that most of the time, listening to her thoughtful, provocative, casually brilliant one-liners, you forgot she was a woman. I mean that in the best way, the same way that when you read Margaret Atwood or Zadie Smith, you are not conscious of reading a 'lady novelist'.' -- STEPHANIE MERRIT, OBSERVER
Maureen Lipman, Guardian
'This is a ravishing book and I urge you to read it'
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Laughing for hours,
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This review is from: I Think the Nurses are Stealing My Clothes: The Very Best of Linda Smith (Paperback)
Absolutely wonderful collection of Linda's work from her first stand-ups, through her radio sitcom scripts to amazingly funny bites from her the news quiz, Just a Minute and Have I Got News for You (amongst many other things). I was spluttering, absolutely exploding with laughter. The amazing finale is the transcript of a stand up she did in Sudbury.
Friends and people Linda worked with do intros to the chapters which are poignant and well placed. Amazing tribute to the funniest person we've had around for a long time.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A brilliant comic's best bits, well compiled,
By Mr. Stuart Bruce "DonQuibeats" (Cardiff, UK) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE) (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: I Think the Nurses are Stealing My Clothes: The Very Best of Linda Smith (Paperback)
Linda Smith was a Radio 4 favourite for many years before her untimely death, and this book is a thorough example of why she was so loved. She was innocent(-seeming), optimistic and determined, yet Linda Smith was one of the all-time masters of sarcasm and dry wit. If only there were more such literate, intelligent and angry people broadcasting today.
A well put-together book- a few page-long tributes from close friends and a short introduction from her partner act as punctuation between big helpings of Linda's comedy, which ranges from stand-up and Radio 4 transcripts to scripts and published writing.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
The audio CD is not the same as the book,
By Nottamun (Strasbourg, France) - See all my reviews
This review is from: I Think the Nurses are Stealing My Clothes: The Very Best of Linda Smith (Audio CD)
Having read the earlier reviews and have enjoyed immensely Linda's contributions on Radio 4, I was really looking forward to this double CD. It appears, however, to be very different from what was described for the book. The recordings go back as far as 1986 and were made for Linda's own personal use, so they are of variable quality in all senses. Hattie Hayridge introduces the performances and explains their context but it seemed to me that, particularly in the earlier sessions, Linda's timing and confidence were very far from what they came to be. Most disappointingly, all her Radio 4 work was squeezed into the last nine minutes as a medley of brief snippets without particular rhyme nor reason. All in all, it most definitely does not do her justice and is far, far from being The Very Best of Linda Smith.
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