Marx & Lennon: The Parallel Sayings

by Joey Green

Overview

Selected by bestselling author Joey Green, a collection of 400 quotes by Marx and Lennon, juxtaposed to reveal their hilarious similarities

No, not THAT Marx and Lenin! Here's a much funnier and artistically talented pair from history. Revolutionaries in their own rights, John Lennon and Groucho Marx did not share much common ground with their Communist namesakes, or even with each other. Where they do overlap is through their very humorous and irreverent takes on life. Editor Joey Green brings together a collection of more than 400 Groucho Marx and John Lennon sayings, juxtaposed to emphasize their hysterical and unexpected similarities.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781401308094
Publisher:	Hachette Books
Publication date:	11/01/2005
Pages:	274
Sales rank:	716,578
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 6.50(h) x 0.62(d)
Age Range:	13 - 18 Years

About the Author

Joey Green, a former contributing editor to National Lampoon, is the author of more than sixty books. He has appeared on the Tonight Show, Good Morning America, The View, and other national television shows, and has been profiled in the New York Times, People, USA Today, and the Washington Post. A native of Miami, Florida, and a graduate of Cornell University (where he founded the campus humor magazine, the Cornell Lunatic, still publishing to this day), he lives in Los Angeles.

Editorial Reviews

Not Karl Marx and Vladimir Ilyich Lenin-Groucho Marx and John Lennon! In this small volume, Green (Joey Green's Amazing Kitchen Cures) collects some 400 (mostly) humorous quotes from the pair and juxtaposes them on each page. Some of the juxtapositions are thematic-e.g., women, money, cats-while others are just serendipitous turns of phrase. Some are surreal; others prosaic. And though these two artists didn't actually have much in common, their quotes are beautifully paralleled here (e.g., Marx's "One for all and all for me and me for you and three for five and six for a quarter" is juxtaposed with Lennon's "I am me as you are he as you are me and we are all together"). Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, has written the foreword while Marx's son, Arthur, has contributed the introduction. This is an interesting and inexpensive gift book for bathroom readers, quote-lovers, or fans of either one of these two men; otherwise, an optional purchase for the humor section of public libraries.-Terren Ilana Wein, Univ. of Chicago Divinity Sch. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

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