The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis: Stories
Written by Max Shulman
Narrated by George Newbern
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Including stories first published in Cosmopolitan and the Saturday Evening Post, this bestselling collection follows the romantic escapades of Max Shulman’s famed collegiate Don Juan.
Like most undergraduates, Dobie Gillis is a bit scattered—sometimes he’s as quick as a whip, other times dull as a doorstop, and his major keeps changing from chemistry to law to journalism. But no matter what subject he should be studying, Dobie always has a girl on his mind.
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Max Shulman
Max Shulman (1919–1988) was an American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and short story writer best known as the author of Rally Round the Flag, Boys! (1957), The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1951), and the popular television series of the same name. The son of Russian immigrants, Shulman was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, and attended the University of Minnesota, where he wrote a celebrated column for the campus newspaper and edited the humor magazine. His bestselling debut novel, Barefoot Boy with Cheek (1943), was followed by two books written while he served in the Army during World War II: The Feather Merchants (1944) and The Zebra Derby (1946). The Tender Trap (1954), a Broadway play cowritten with Robert Paul Smith, was adapted into a movie starring Frank Sinatra and Debbie Reynolds. His acclaimed novel Rally Round the Flag, Boys! became a film starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. Shulman’s other books include Sleep till Noon (1950), a hilarious reinvention of the rags-to-riches tale; I Was a Teenage Dwarf (1959), which chronicles the further adventures of Dobie Gillis; Anyone Got a Match? (1964), a prescient satire of the tobacco, television, and food industries; and Potatoes Are Cheaper (1971), the tale of a romantic Jewish college student in depression-era St. Paul. His movies include The Affairs of Dobie Gillis (with Debbie Reynolds and Bob Fosse) and House Calls (with Walter Mathau and Glenda Jackson). One of America’s premier humorists, he greatly influenced the comedy of Woody Allen and Bob Newhart, among many others.
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Reviews for The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Originally published in the early 1950s, these short stories are sweet, funny, and quaint without seeming irrelevant.
Dobie Gillis is the title character and the thread that connects these stories, though his character isn't set in stone and the stories aren't chronological or necessarily consistent. In all of them, he's an incurably optimistic and hopelessly romantic college student, but that's about it -- each of the stories is a different take on that basic character. Maybe he's fallen in love with a smart, ambitious girl, or a beautiful but dumb girl, or a spoiled rich girl, or a girl who's been sent away to New York by her parents. It doesn't matter, because each story is charming and Dobie is always a bit adorably goofy.
It's clear that these were written several decades ago, but though I had feared the female characters would be either flat or offensively stereotyped, they were widely varied and very fun to read. They certainly keep Dobie on his toes!
I received a complimentary copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for my honest review. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I had been a big fan of The Dobie Gillis Show when I was a kid, and, if I recall correctly, I think Andy Cohen mentioned this book as a favorite in his autobiography, so I thought this would be a fun book to read. I was fortunate to receive an advance copy of the re-issue of this book, and both my husband and I read it and enjoyed it on our vacation. It was very nostalgic for us, and we could see how it inspired the TV series. It was a nice trip back in time to a more innocent time, and it was a pleasure to read. I think other fans of the TV show would enjoy it as well.