a great book from a great woman, 06 Sep 2001
what can i say? this comprises some of the best work written in this catergory, and all by one woman! Dorothy Parker has a great wit and conveys her point extremly well using humor and her amazing intellect. this is a book i read with some friends and we laugh and agree with her! well worth it!

Sharp wit and biting observations withstanding time., 15 Dec 1999
Dorothy Parker uses her own indomitable style to observe in a dry, precise manner the intricate, and often misunderstood, relationships between the sexes and the classes. This book is inspirational, tragic, comic and far too close to home even now, up to seventy years after some of the material was first written. Parker's own sad life is reflected in each page of ascerbic social comment and I cannot recommend it enough. For anyone who has been more keen on a lover than they were upon one, read 'The Telephone' with a familiar heart - from there on in I guarantee you will be hooked. The poems are quite short, the theatre and book reviews can be scathing and the language/ terminology is somewhat dated, but none of this detracts from Mrs Parkers vast talent for accurately dissecting the human condition in all of its guises. This collection of her work will leave the reader feeling like they have found a very prickly friend, who is well worth taking the time to become familiar with.

a great book from a great woman, 06 Sep 2001
what can i say? this comprises some of the best work written in this catergory, and all by one woman! Dorothy Parker has a great wit and conveys her point extremly well using humor and her amazing intellect. this is a book i read with some friends and we laugh and agree with her! well worth it!

Sharp wit and biting observations withstanding time., 15 Dec 1999
Dorothy Parker uses her own indomitable style to observe in a dry, precise manner the intricate, and often misunderstood, relationships between the sexes and the classes. This book is inspirational, tragic, comic and far too close to home even now, up to seventy years after some of the material was first written. Parker's own sad life is reflected in each page of ascerbic social comment and I cannot recommend it enough. For anyone who has been more keen on a lover than they were upon one, read 'The Telephone' with a familiar heart - from there on in I guarantee you will be hooked. The poems are quite short, the theatre and book reviews can be scathing and the language/ terminology is somewhat dated, but none of this detracts from Mrs Parkers vast talent for accurately dissecting the human condition in all of its guises. This collection of her work will leave the reader feeling like they have found a very prickly friend, who is well worth taking the time to become familiar with.

Dorothy Parker is a true hero for American fiction, 12 Jan 1999
Ms. Parker's collection of short stories are modern and funny. Many of the dialogues detailed in her works can still be heard uttered today between men and women.