Books That Blew My Mind # 10: “The Complete Prose of Woody Allen” by Woody Allen

Books That Blew My Mind is an occasional series here at Off The Tracks – thinking back on great books that I loved (and still love); books that found me at just the right time.

The Complete Prose of Woody Allen by Woody Allen

I saw a copy of this recently in a second-hand bookstore and was nostalgic to the point of wanting to buy it again. I gave my copy to one of the stores long ago - in the hope that someone else would discover it. But Woody is in the Waiting Room at the Cancellation Clinic - so maybe that was just my original copy sitting there waiting only for me to rediscover it?

I’m glad I walked on and didn’t re-purchase, I might only have brought it home and found that reading the skit about academics playing scrabble and chess (angrily) via correspondance would be a wincingly unfunny as when you line up an archival SNL skit for friends and/or family and sit there with a daft grin caked on your face in the hope it will spread across the room, only to feel the floorboards clamming up.