Review: Bigger Than a Breadbox

Bigger Than a Breadbox by Steve Allen
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

This is not so much a book by Allen, but a compilation by Leonard Feather with his commentary. Some pieces may be provided by Allen, but this is really an olio of notes, quotes, transcripts, and correspondence somewhat chronological so that it makes up for in biography what it lacks in cohesion. The jotted remembrances or transcripts are documents lacking zing, but some prepared texts are laugh-out-loud funny. This includes an old radio bit satirizing recaps for serials, which starts, "Yesterday, you'll remember, Agatha paled when Boger entered the library. It seemed as if only days before he had gone out of her life, vowing never to return. And now, here they were strolling along the beach, arm in arm. As they climbed the flagpole David spoke to her, softly..."

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