Wake Me When It's Over

By Howard Singer and Singer Howard

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0000CKEIZ
• Release Date: January 1959
• Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons
• Length: 315 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The story of a schnook.

Howard Singer must have been or known a schnook. The story, even if it seems surrealistic, is too real. Russ is a schnook. Therefore, if something can go wrong, it will. His wife is into insurances of all kinds. She wants him to get his GI insurance while he can. After she forces him to apply (schnook), he must explain that he has two serial numbers (schnook). When he was shot down over Germany, he was presumed dead and needed a second number to get discharged (schnook). So, naturally, realizing that the (schnook) was in the service only one day on the second serial number, he is called up to finish his time. He ends up on an island in the middle of the Sea of J-a-p-a-n. There he has a revelation that saves his sanity and that of 400 other servicemen. A plan, so brilliant that I am not about to tell you what it is or how it is executed. At one point when he is on the island, he has to relieve himself and gets poison ivy. No one believes him and thinks he was the victim of hanky panky. They all stay clear of him until the doctor explains it. In the book, the plan cured his shnookyness; in the movie, it takes a trial. The cast includes Dick Shawn as the schnook and Ernie Kovacs as his commander and hotshot fighter pilot. I can relate to this, as I also have two serial numbers. Two completed six-year enlistments in different decades. Do not forget to watch the movie “Wake Me When It's Over” (1960), starring Ernie Kovacs and Dick Shawn.