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Old 11-14-2007, 11:59 PM   #31
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. . . though he's no Dan Brown and probaby never was.
Good thing, or I wouldn't like him too much.
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Old 11-15-2007, 08:44 PM   #32
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I was just talking to Marsupial the other day about Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris. Very, very funny.
Me Talk Pretty One Day is wonderful. Hysterical. I read "Big Boy" last night and about died. Yeah, Sedaris is rampantly gay, but he's a good writer. Not that good writing and homosexuality are mutually exclusive.
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Old 11-15-2007, 11:52 PM   #33
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"Letters From a Nut" by Ted L Nancy.

I basically had to stop reading it on the airplane because my stomach was hurting so bad from laughing. I was finding new ways to embarrass my wife as I laughed my way out loud through the book. I even had tears coming down.

Ted L Nancy is a fictitious author who has published a few things.

The book is a compendium of actual letters Ted has written to businesses, hotels, restaurants, Fortune 500 companies, etc....the letters are ridiculous, sometimes incoherent, and complete nonsense.....the humor is in the actual responses he gets from these companies.

It is one of the funniest books I have read in a long time.
After reading letters from a nut I sent wanted to see if people would take letters like that seriously.

I wrote a letter to the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino, that said my friend and I had just returned from a weekend of gambling and relaxing at their fine establishment. However on our return flight home we decided that we needed to make one more bet, just to round out the trip. So we bet $1000 between ourselves as to which one of us could pick the color closest to black out of a box of Crayola 64 crayons.

I then added a lengthy paragraph about how I had been credited with being very smart at colors from an early age, and using this color knowledge I picked out brown. And declared myself the winner. My friend picked navy blue and declared himself the winner. I then said that I was sending this letter to the Casino Manager to decide our wager and we both agreed to take their decision as binding.

I got back a letter from the MGM Casino manager that went into great detail about how she had decided our bet. It included a story about how she would often attempt to get dressed in the dark in the early morning hours so as to not wake her husband. She had three pairs of identical shoes in black, brown and navy. On these dark mornings when she was hoping to get black shoes but picked wrong she always ended up wearing blue shoes. She concluded the letter by saying that she had no idea if my letter was serious or not but it was the most interesting she had ever received.
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Old 11-18-2007, 09:56 PM   #34
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"Letters From a Nut" by Ted L Nancy.

I basically had to stop reading it on the airplane because my stomach was hurting so bad from laughing. I was finding new ways to embarrass my wife as I laughed my way out loud through the book. I even had tears coming down.

Ted L Nancy is a fictitious author who has published a few things.

The book is a compendium of actual letters Ted has written to businesses, hotels, restaurants, Fortune 500 companies, etc....the letters are ridiculous, sometimes incoherent, and complete nonsense.....the humor is in the actual responses he gets from these companies.

It is one of the funniest books I have read in a long time.
That sounds a lot like The Lazlo Letters, a book written several years ago by Don Novello, the guy who played Father Guido Sarducci on SNL. It was a hysterical book.

For humorous fiction, I enjoy Carl Hiaasen and Elmore Leonard.
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Old 11-18-2007, 10:58 PM   #35
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I got back a letter from the MGM Casino manager that went into great detail about how she had decided our bet. It included a story about how she would often attempt to get dressed in the dark in the early morning hours so as to not wake her husband. She had three pairs of identical shoes in black, brown and navy. On these dark mornings when she was hoping to get black shoes but picked wrong she always ended up wearing blue shoes. She concluded the letter by saying that she had no idea if my letter was serious or not but it was the most interesting she had ever received.
That's a great story.
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Old 11-20-2007, 06:29 PM   #36
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If you are new to reading, I would recommend the Great Brain series by Fitzgerald. They are not LOL funny, but they will make you grin at times.
i read those when i was growing up - do you know if they are still in print? i would like to get those for my sons.
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Old 11-21-2007, 02:32 AM   #37
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i read those when i was growing up - do you know if they are still in print? i would like to get those for my sons.
Yes, they are still in print. I bought them for my boys a couple of years ago at a Barnes and Noble close to my house.

Great books.
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This novel was picked by the NY Times as one of the 10 best books of the year, and I read the first chapter in the Times. It was pretty damn funny. I think I'll pick it up when it is issued in paper.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/031...pf_rd_i=507846
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This novel was picked by the NY Times as one of the 10 best books of the year, and I read the first chapter in the Times. It was pretty damn funny. I think I'll pick it up when it is issued in paper.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/031...pf_rd_i=507846
my mother just recommended this book to me. i am going to read it - thanks for the post.
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