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    <body><![CDATA[What a letdown. I was so giddy to find this book in a bookstore, a crumpled, coffee stained original edition from the 70's, obviously well-worn and loved. Surely this must be a sign of awesomeness, and considering I have Martin's LET'S GET SMALL album memorized and PURE DRIVEL is my favorite short s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47009978">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[some folks reviewing this, seem to not get this book at all.  <br/><br/>unfortunately, steve martin's knack for making some pretty droll movies the past 15-20 years makes it pretty difficult for a reader today to read this without already expecting something else entirely.  <br/><br/>i haven't g...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4990341">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Steve Martin's first book, the long-out-of-print &quot;Cruel Shoes&quot; from 1979, reads today as something of a cross between the more absurd parts of his comedy albums from the same era (some jokes from those records are repeated almost verbatim here) and his later Shouts and Murmurs columns from...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78811804">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I felt I needed to put this book somewhere on my list. It was the first gift I ever gave to my husband. He would, like, talk about this book all the time, and then I found it at The Crow used bookstore in Vermont, and well...it became his Christmas gift. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Possibly one of the great classics of English literature.  These are some of the most hilarious short pieces written in the second half of the twentieth century.  Hyperbolic?  Ante up with something better.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book probably changed my life.  I didn't really &quot;get it&quot; at 11 years old, but I knew it appealed to me.  Years later...well, I still don't &quot;get it&quot;, but I still <em>love</em> it!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I will take my love of Steve Martin's early comedic works to my grave, but even a life-longer like me felt challenged by the utterly bizarre <em>Cruel Shoes</em>. It's a slim collection of very short musings, stories, and poetry with no apparent connection between any of them other than sheer absurdity. I'm ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36275238">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a strange little book. When I picked it up at the used book store I thought, (The following quote is a sample of actual thought that I regularly and painstakingly record for posterity-- or anyone who will listen.) &quot;Hmmm. Steve Martin. $2. Hmmm. I enjoyed Shopgirl and The Pleasure of My ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22548539">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Back before he was a more serious comedian, Steve Martin was the king of the absurd.  He would work hard to be serious about a subject, then set you up for the funniest thing possible out of that situation.<br/><br/>&quot;My cat ran up my credit cards...and you can't return used pet toys, they hav...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21739443">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was pretty much head-over-heals for Steve Martin when I was a kid. I loved this book, but reading it now just doesn't seem as funny as it was back then (it's still funny though). I started thinking about it: how many people can you name that are authors, comedians, musicians, and actors ALL IN ONE...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57660308">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was a huge Steve Martin fan. Saw him in high school at the hialai stadium in Hartford(anyone from Connecticut knows how long ago that was) My girlfriend at the time(now my wife, Terry) made me the bunny ears, I made her the arrow through the head. He was a wild and crazy guy. You need anymore reas...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54194047">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of the best collections of short humor I've ever read.  This is Steve Martin at his strangest, the Steve Martin who did balloon animals of venereal disease during his stand-up act.  As with any collection, some stories are funnier than others, but it's definitely worth a read.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Why I bought this in hardback when I was fifteen, I don't remember. It must have been because the guy singing &quot;King Tut&quot; on SNL was so funny. It didn't prepare me at all for this book, which is very dark and odd, and somewhat funny. But I still remember the title story decades later.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I felt like every story in this book could have been in an issue of McSweeney's. So like McSweeney's, some stories were a hit... and others were a miss. I am still incredibly happy that I was able to score this out of print book at the Eugene library book sale. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[There was a time when Steve Martin was an absurdist comedian extraordinaire, and this is his once fertile comedic insanity at its best.  As a kid, I used to read this and laugh so hard that soda shot from my nose.  This is anarchic absurdity at its finest.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Funny essays by a young Steve Martin. My favorite is &quot;Cruel Shoes&quot; and I think about it every time I buy new shoes and have to break them in. Here's a link to the story: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.getasite.com/gj/cruelshoes.htm." title="http://www.getasite.com/gj/cruelshoes.htm.">http://www.getasite.com/gj/cruelshoes.ht...</a> Enjoy.<br/><br/>I still have my first edition copy!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Strictly for those who enjoy absurd humour.  Martin is a very silly person. Many people who enjoy comedy can't tolerate silliness, so they won't appreciate this book.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Deliciously surreal humor and absurdity. A book of utter nonsense by a comedy legend. A wonderful addition to any weirdo's library. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When I was eleven I took a trip to California, but my brother and I never could find the diarrhea gardens of El Camino Real.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I got a paperback copy of this book the Christmas I was 13 years old. I have read it several times over the years]]></body>
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