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Rickles' Book: A Memoir | 
 enlarge | Author: Don Rickles
Creator: David Ritz
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Category: Book
List Price: $14.00
Buy New: $4.78
You Save: $9.22 (66%)
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Rating:  80 reviews
Sales Rank: 12864
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.8
ISBN: 0743293061
Dewey Decimal Number: 920
EAN: 9780743293068
ASIN: 0743293061
Publication Date: June 3, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: NEW. A brand new book perfect inside and out. May have small remainder mark on outside edge. Purchase and help a youth pastor with three daughters.
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Product Description
Why you need to buy RICKLES' Book immediately:RICKLES' BOOK will help you win friends and influence people. RICKLES' BOOK will introduce you to all of his famous friends, from Frank Sinatra to Johnny Carson. RICKLES' BOOK will help you lose weight. RICKLES' BOOK will help you gain weight. RICKLES' BOOK will improve your love life. RICKLES' BOOK will make you cry. (If your love life doesn't improve.) RICKLES' BOOK will make you laugh. (If your love life does improve.) RICKLES' BOOK will make you love one of the great Americans of our time, Don Rickles. RICKLES' BOOK will give you something to talk about at parties. (If you're ever invited to parties.) RICKLES' BOOK, along with the Bible and War and Peace, will grace your bookshelf and upgrade your literary status. RICKLES' BOOK will keep you up at night. RICKLES' BOOK will put you to sleep at night. RICKLES' BOOK will make you rich. (If you treasure great humor.)
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 Don's da man! November 12, 2008
I bought this because I know Don. He is a bit under appreciated with the kids these days. Check out why he was so influential and why to be insulted by Don is an honor. He is a living piece of America history, entertainment and otherwise. He is also a very kind and very funny guy.
Don Rickles October 14, 2008
This book was very funny. Just could not put it down. When reading you could hear his voice.
 YOU'LL FEEL CHEATED AND WANT YOUR MONEY BACK FOR THIS CRAPOLA October 9, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
Don't bother, a waste of time. You will feel conned. I never really liked his bigoted, racist and hurtful denegrading of all cultures, especially Spanish/African Americans. He denegraded all cultures, but not his own jewish culture. Posterity will judge rickles unkindly, as it should any bigot. Some/many comedians use comedy to hide their hate, but deliver their bogoted diatribes, like rickles, to get 'his,'hate messages out their - with a smile. His guilded, candy-coated comedy is loaded and cleverly calculated, with hurtful, demeaning, intent underneath. Ad Nauseum. Not a nice person or a person to admire.
 Not even close to what you wish it was August 5, 2008
I have been a HUGE fan of Don Rickles for decades and was so excited to get this book since having seen him, watched him and known about him I knew his life would be amazing and the book just let's you know what an amazing life he has indeed led. Unfortunately, this book reads like seeing an apartment through the windows of a passing el train - nothing solid, no flow whatsoever and nothing to bring you in. The average chapter is like 3 pages and if you are thinking to yourself, that's not enough to really get into depth about anything, you are absolutely right - a perfect example is a time on stage he talks about where Sinatra doesn't even recognize him and he knew something was wrong - he doesn't get into it anymore, doesn't talk about anything more about it - just leaves you lacking and the whole book lacks with it - thoroughly disappointed in what could have been and should have been an AMAZING book - true and big fans will find some laughs but there is nothing here that frankly, the really big fans will not already have heard him talk about before many times over (ie. the Carson broken cigarette box/CPO Sharkey story) - save your money and wait for someone to write a biography, the auto biography seems to have been written by someone who wasn't interested in telling his life story and that is a true shame for anyone as interested as I was to read it.
Good read; sounds like him. June 23, 2008
I didn't scream with laughter the way I do when he's talking, but I could hear his voice in the book. Too short I think, but it's not some detailed biography--it's a quick presentation, like his typical stories. I reckon if you hadn't heard him talk, it wouldn't read as funny as it does for me. But Mr. Rickles has class and heart and that comes through loud and clear; and that counts for a lot.
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