Boring and really not funny
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The idea for this book is rather simple: write silly letters to various companies and get them to play along with the game. It sounds interesting at first but I found it rather tedious. I had one or two giggles but there's nothing that really made me laugh out loud and I thought that the book lived up to it's title - it really is a timewaster! If you want cranks then I'd recommend watching Fonejacker, which is a very funny show with guaranteed laughs.
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Ok - funny in parts
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I bought this as a result of an Amazon recommendation after purchasing and enjoying a couple of Guy Browning books. Whereas they were laugh out loud hilarious, this is mildly amusing verging at times on the childish, but nonetheless, enjoyable to read during the tedium of a 2 hour commute; anything to lighten the day is a good thing, right?!
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Hilarious
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It isn't often that a book makes me laugh out loud, but this is genuinely, side-splittingly funny. I drove my husband mad with it, to the point where he too had to read it in sheer self-defence.
The premise is simple, Robin Cooper, the author, picks random institutions and writes them letters of astonishing absurdity in the hope that they will write back and a correspondence can then ensue. You would think, given the patent lunacy of many of his letters, that he would be roundly ignored, but luckily for us, he does get replies, and these with the original letters are what makes up this book.
My particular favourites are the letters in which diagrams of the most terrible, wobbly penned quality are sent out with the letters in illustration of some madly random point, and then these are actually taken seriously by the correspondent. Genius, pure genius.
I am now on my third copy, having lent and mysteriously never been given back my previous two. Be warned this is a book you think you will dip into and then accidentally end up reading in one sitting, howling with laughter.
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Utterly childish
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Cooper.....you are without doubt, a complete git. You have abused busy peoples limited free time and made a mockery of the whole customer service system.
Furthermore, you seem to have made fools out of otherwise decent and helpful people guilty of nothing more than taking their professions seriously.
Keep it up!
EK
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Juvenile
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Readong through this I was reminded of stuff my mates and I used to write when we were 14 or 15 (along with prank phone calls to local shopkeepers). Fortunately, hopefully, we have grown up a bit by now, and this self-consciously ironic style smacks of someone who grew up with Blackadder but has not means of moving on from it.
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