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| Calcium Made Interesting: Sketches, Letters, Essays and Gondolas | 
 enlarge | Author: Graham Chapman
Creator: Jim Yoakum
Publisher: Pan Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 162454
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.1 x 1
ISBN: 0330435434
Dewey Decimal Number: 817
EAN: 9780330435437
ASIN: 0330435434
Publication Date: August 18, 2006
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 Funny But Sad August 13, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
A collection of monologues, letters, essays, teleplays, sketches and photos by the late Graham Chapman, edited together in this nice hardback book by Jim Yoakum.
Yoakum isn't much of a writer, but we're not here to read what he has to say. Unfortunately, he isn't much of an editor either. He puts sketches and stories that have appeared earlier in the book in again in a slightly different form and keeps repeating himself. And why he has picked what he has picked is a mystery.
Some of Chapman's stuff here is funny, some interesting, some weird and worrying. But what weighted it down for me was the constant reminder that the whole point to this book is that none of this was ever published or produced. Some of it wasn't meant to be - in which case, should we be reading it? But most of it was meant to be, only it never made it. So why not? Did Chapman fail? That's depressing. Did he think it was rubbish? Why do we have to read it? Did he die before he got the chance? That's depressing again.
So it is funny, although it could have been put together better, but it's all so melancholy.
Graham Chapman's breadth and depth in full February 16, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Graham Chapman is the most mysterious of the Monty Python team, what with him being dead and therefore unavailable for documentaries, interviews and Monty Python tribute nights on Channel 4. However this book redressed the balance- a very thorough collection of Chapman's sketches, speeches, serious essays, letters, and select extracts from his book "Liar's Autobiography", many of which you haven't seen before.
It really shows Chapman's breadth and depth. He was so intelligent, both broadly as a doctor and an observer of the human race and on specific issues such as homosexual rights, and with a scathing wit.
My sole criticism of the book would be that it is arranged by group- all the letters in a group, then all the sketches, and so on. When I re-read this book, as I will, I'll probably read it in a random order to get the full contrast between comedy and tragedy.
 A Weird Trip Through A Loony's Mind August 24, 2005
25 out of 25 found this review helpful
No doubt about it, Graham Chapman was a loony. But a wonderful and funny loony as this book clearly shows. What's most revealing about this book are the (fairly) serious essays on serious topics such as over-population. But being a Python he can't keep itstraight for too long and he ends up making some valid points whilst making you laugh--the best medicine from the good Doctor! I also enjoyed the foreword which acts as a brief life history of Chapman, giving the reader a good insight into how he ticked. Weird, funny and touching. Great book.
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