Carl Reiner Books In Order

Novels

  1. Enter Laughing (1958)
  2. All Kinds of Love (1993)
  3. Nnnnn (1995)
  4. Continue Laughing (1995)
  5. Just Desserts (2009)
  6. The Secret Treasure Of Tahka Paka (2015)

Collections

  1. Groucho Marx (1994)
  2. How Paul Robeson Saved My Life (1999)
  3. Just So Stories (2009)
  4. Carl Reiner’s Novel Beginnings (2009)

Picture Books

  1. The 2000 Year Old Man Goes to School (1981)
  2. Tell Me a Scary Story (2003)
  3. Tell Me Another Scary Story (2009)
  4. Tell Me A Silly Story (2010)

Non fiction

  1. The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000 (1997)
  2. My Anecdotal Life (2003)
  3. Adolf Meistermann (2013)
  4. I Just Remembered (2014)

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Carl Reiner Books Overview

Enter Laughing

In his semi autobiographical, laugh out loud novel, Carl Reiner details a young man’s frustrations as he works as a machinist s helper and tries to break into show business. Along the bumpy path, the aspiring young actor tries to extricate himself from his overly protective parents and his two girlfriends and eventually lands an acting gig with a small theater troupe. Human, funny, and relatable, Enter Laughing is a warm tale of a young man with love in his heart and greasepaint on his face that guarantees to have everyone exit laughing.

All Kinds of Love

In an eccentric tale of unconventional love, Fred and Sharon Cox are each separately having an affair with their alluring Japanese tutor, Hana Yoshi, while their son is plotting to run away with one of the twin Salvadorian housekeepers.

Nnnnn

The hero of Carl Reiner’s nutty and wonderful novel, Nat Noland, is hard at work on his fifth book, his own version of Genesis, concentrating on the relationship between Cain and Abel. While investigating their relationship, he starts to investigate his relationship with himself. His doting wife, Glennie, gets worried when she hears him having a loud, heated discussion while he’s alone in the baseme*nt. Because he is unaware that he is talking to himself in two distinct voices she encourages him to seek the help of the famous Viennese psychiatrist Dr. Frucht. After a few sessions, Dr. Frucht elicits descriptions of Nat’s recurring childhood dreams and the fact that he never knew his biological parents. In the lobby, when Nat bumps into the lovely Dr. Gertrude Trampleasure, an empathologist, she tells him how much he resembles her old teenage sweetheart, Buddy Keebler: ‘You two could be twins!’ With the assistance of a private eye, Nat embarks on a quest to search for this ‘twin’ and his unknown past, while continuing to work on his biblical novel, Nnnnn.

Just Desserts

Successful romance novelist Nat Noland has just had his cage severely rattled. After receiving an email directly from God, he just cant seem to get anywhere with his new novel. In Just Desserts, the grand poobah of American comedy Carl Reiner will have you holding your sides like never before. Follow Nat on his romps around New York City, as he tries to make sense of this divine intervention. Reminiscent of Mark Twains Letters from the Earth, Just Desserts sparkles with the slapstick comedy and madcap hijinks that Reiner fans have loved for decades.

How Paul Robeson Saved My Life

Carl Reiner has been making people laugh since the days of The Dick Van Dyke Show. His showbiz bits with Mel Brooks about the 2000 Year Old Man have become the stuff of comedy legend. Jerry Seinfeld, Alan Alda, Neil Simon, Steve Allen, and Richard Lewis were all bowled over by the comic genius of The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000: The Book. Now, in his wonderful new book, Carl Reiner shows off the talent and humor that have made him a comedic superstar. Filled with rich, multidimensional tales, this collection of short stories from one of America’s truly great comedic minds is at once poignant, nostalgic, and laugh out loud funny. ”How Paul Robeson Saved My Life.” the story of Reiner’s experiences in the army during World War II, is a darkly funny look at racism. ”Lance and Gwendolyn” is a modern day fairy tale with some surprising twists. ”Dial 411 for Legal Smut’ is a tongue in cheek look at phone sex. Whatever topic he tackles, Reiner always manages to capture the highs and lows, the follies and foibles of everyday life. Sweet, wry and whimsical, How Paul Robeson Saved My Life and Other Mostly Happy Stories is a charming collection that will leave you laughing in delight.

Just So Stories

Over 100 years ago, Kipling brought the children of the world Just So Stories his fanciful tales of the peculiar and exotic. Tales like How the Leopard Got His Spots and The Elephant’s Child answer questions only children would ask and answer them in a way only children would believe. Kipling very much inteded his Just So Stories to be read aloud and no noe does it better than Carl Reiner as he brings each original story to life. A superbly amusing and entertaining experience, Kipling’s Just So Stories will delight both young and old alike.

Carl Reiner’s Novel Beginnings

Heres the chance youve been waiting for, you comedic mastermind, you: an opportunity to collaborate directly with the funnyman himself, Carl Reiner. In CARL REINERS NOVEL BEGINNINGS, the grand poobah of American comedy has written the beginnings of twenty seven separate novels, with one goal in mind: to have you thats right, you spin the rest of the tale into a full length book. And whats in for you, you ask? A cool twenty five thousand bucks, a big, fat publishing deal with a big, fat publisher, and a book with your and, ahem, Carl Reiners name on it!

The 2000 Year Old Man Goes to School

About four days ago, a plane landed in America with a man who claimed to be 2000 years old. Today, that man is visiting a school just like yours to tell the children of the world what it’s like to be 2000 years old. Here are some of the things you will learn: What did the 2000 Year Old Man use for transportation? FEAR. You see, an animal would growl at you, and you would go two miles a minute! What language did the 2000 Year Old Man speak? Rock. Basic rock. Like, ‘Hey, don’t throw that rock at me! Put that rock away!’ What food did the 2000 Year Old Man eat Only what was natural and organic. Clouds, stars, rocks. Big things and small things. But we had to be careful of the red ants because a few live ones on your tongue will eat your tongue before you eat them. Comic geniuses Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner have teamed up once again to bring their beloved 2000 Year Old Man to school. This is one show and tell exhibit you’re never going to forget!

Tell Me a Scary Story

Something with red beams of light shooting from its eyes was coming down the baseme*nt stairs. It came closer and closer…
. The hair on the back of my neck was sticking straight out. I finally saw it and it was alive! Everyone loves scary stories and award winning comedy writer/director Carl Reiner invites readers to huddle close as he tells a young boy’s tale of the mysterious house next door. As the story becomes spookier and spookier, Reiner pauses to ask ‘Shall we turn the page or is it too scary?’ That’s for you to decide! Parents and children can read along together as they listen to the spooky sound effects and Carl Reiner’s hilarious reading of Tell Me a Scary Story
on the accompanying CD.

Tell Me Another Scary Story

The incomparable Carl Reiner’s first children s book Tell Me a Scary Story, was a hit when it appeared in 2003. Here at last is the sequel, complete with a read along CD filled with even more of the scary stuff children love odd beams of light coming from nowhere, oodles of goopy goo, memorable characters, and mysteries for kids to solve if they dare. As the story becomes scarier, Reiner pauses to ask readers, Shall we turn the page, or is it too scary? That s for kids to decide! Here s a fun book with delicious thrills that children will ask for again and again.

The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000

In a millennial update of the comedy classic, the legendary team of Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner revive the 2000 Year Old Man, who is raring to give his take on the issues of our time. ‘Among the true classics of modern comedy.’ Steve Allen.

My Anecdotal Life

More than once, Carl Reiner has had friends say, Hey, Reiner, you ought to write those things down. And at eighty, he finally has. In this funny and engaging memoir, one of the best raconteurs on the planet recalls his life in show business in short comic takes. Reiner tells of how, after answering an ad for free acting clas*ses on his brother Charlie’s advice, he forsakes a budding career as a machinist for an acting career. In Sidney Bechet and His Jazz Band Meet Franz Kafka, he captivates the legendary jazz man and his band with an unusual reading of The Metamorphosis, during a thunderstorm at a Catskills resort in 1942. Reiner also recalls the highlights of the succeeding decades: his first sweaty audition, impersonating a dog impersonating movie stars; his forays into the theater; his work on Your Show of Shows and The Dick Van Dyke Show during TV s golden days; and his long friendship and collaboration with Mel Brooks which gave birth to the Two Thousand Year Old Man. In A Recipe to Remember, he recites a recipe for cream cheese cookies to a star studded audience that includes Paul Newman, Leonard Bernstein, and Barbra Streisand. In The Gourmet Eating Club, he gives an insider s take on the now legendary group that included Mario Puzo, Joseph Heller, Zero Mostel, and other luminaries. Mary Tyler Moore, Sid Caesar, Mickey Rooney, Johnny Carson, Cary Grant, Dinah Shore, Ann Bancroft, Jean Renoir the list goes on and on also appear in what Reiner calls the literary variety show that captures the highs and lows of his extraordinary life. Through it all, Reiner displays the wit and warmth that have made him one of the most beloved figures in the entertainment business. This charming memoir will delight anyone who wants a behind the scenes look at five decades of Hollywood and television history.

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