Last Words

5 Responses to “Last Words”

1. Mary F. Wagner says:

   August 10, 2010 at 6:20 am

   I wish I could review this book but it was never sent. I’ve contacted the seller with no response and Amex is now handling it.

   Sorry
   Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
2. SML says:

   August 10, 2010 at 9:08 am

   I read the book and establish it neither entertaining or insightful It came off self indulgent. i like to reflect it would have been a better book if he had been there to end it.
   Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
3. V. Csakany says:

   August 10, 2010 at 11:32 am

   I had permanently admired George Carlin and establish his humor sharp and sometimes brilliant. Reading his book, but, painted a different picture. I establish the book to be an endless tale of drug dependency and egocentricity toward persons he presumably loved the most. In my opinion he was a total narcissist. He seemed to have the most contempt for persons people from who he derived his humor. What a mess! This is one book I will not pass on.
   Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
4. Donn Resnick says:

   August 10, 2010 at 12:24 pm

   I loved George Carlin. His was the most intellectual comedy, next to Lenny Bruce (who was his hero). The appealing parts of “Last Words” are his trying and finally succeeding to find his own authentic self in comedy. The dull parts were his growing up, drunk father and supportive mother. Dull! The amusing parts were the reiterations of his hilarious routines, especially the legendary “Seven Words You Can’t Say On TV.”
   Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
5. Victor Hugo says:

   August 10, 2010 at 2:07 pm

   When I place this book on my Christams list, I didn’t realize it was an autobiography or a sort-a-biography as Carlin himself calls it. I thought it was another Humor/Comedy book from a name who is supposed to be a comedian. Had I know it was his life tale, I probably wouldn’t have questioned for it.
   
   In my opinion (and I may be in the minority on this) few people need to have their lives chronicled for others and future generations. Persons who do, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King etc generally have more vital lessons to pass along than George does in repeatedly recounting his passion for creamed spinach in a neighborhood cafeteria as a youth or his fantastic dislike for having to do television talk shows.
   
   George (I learned) was largely unimpressed by others in TV and entertainment and how pretentious, superficial and self impressed they were with themselves. Yet, reading through his biography, he seems to judge readers will be fascinated in learning trivial having no effect things about him that he finds so distressing in others. George, look in the mirror.
   
   George had a genuine gift for humor and comedic thought. At his best, he was capable of being very amusing and inventive and entertaining people. This book is not entertaining. It is much more self analysis (from a skewed self prompoting perspective)as though he were trying to justify his life for others or convince people what a genius he was.
   
   He should have stuck with Humor and left the biographys to vital people whose life’s were vital to others, not just to themselves.
   
   Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5