Too Soon to Say Goodbye

Ben Bradlee said it best..."Artie can squeeze a book out of a busy signal". And so, with the extra time that Art Buchwald enjoyed after entering Washington Hospice a year ago, he did just that..."Too Soon to Say Goodbye" (a mini-biography of sorts) may just be his most revealing. Art Buchwald was sui generis. In this book, which alternates between the serious side of death and the comedy that comes so naturally to him, the... Read Full Review

When Art Buchwald, the Pulitzer-Prize winning columnist and humorist, died recently, I was saddened . . . but not for long, in that shortly thereafter I chuckled when I saw him smiling as he told me and countless others that if I was watching him read his own obituary, it meant--to quote him--that "I just died." Accounts of his death also made reference to his last book, TOO SOON TO SAY GOODBYE, in which he described his... Read Full Review

Art Buchwald 's "Too Soon To Say Goodbye" was sad and humorous at the same time. Buchwald was expecting to die sooner rather than later and used that extra time to leave the world this beautiful, final legacy. One is left to wonder if some of the treatments we endure are worth it when we see the quality of life he had in the end. His humor was intact and he was alive and lucid to receive all the many visitors streaming... Read Full Review

I have always liked reading anything by Art Buchwald. He has a skewered take on almost everything, and as it turns out death too. It might seem morbid to read a book - even by a humorist - about his own death. Is it insensitive if I say I enjoyed this book? He admits he doesn't have any particular insight to what lies beyond, but it is clear that knowing the end was coming did nothing to hurt his humor, and therin lies the... Read Full Review

Having cheated death, Art Buchwold has given us a bedside look at his impending demise. Do not read this book unless you are where you can laugh out loud.