Letters from a Nut

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Summary: So funny I could cry...
Review: This is THE book for anyone who likes practical joke-type humour. Ted Nancy writes the most inventive prank letters to all sorts of people, and more often than not the letters are actually believed and are replied to by the recipients as if they were real! Letters from a Nut is guaranteed to make you laugh aloud. The two sequels (More Letters ~ & Even More Letters ~) are both equally hilarious.

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Summary: funny, but a little repetitive
Review: This book is funny, but once you read one letter there are few surprises to be found in the others.

Although not comedy, I prefer Griffin and Sabine and Relics of the Post Age/

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Summary: I opened a bag of Fritos for the 1st time today...
Review: ... and they were all curled and salty and hard and crunchy!

When they say in the book that it is "laugh out-loud funny" ... they weren't kidding. I don't remember the last time I laughed out loud while reading a book. I found Ted Nancy's letters just hilarious ... and the responses were horrible (in a good way)! I liked this book so much that I bought all the other ones in this series. I can't wait to read them all. I read this one at 2am one morning and could NOT put it down! It was that good. My favorite letter in the book (although it is hard to pick a favorite...they are all great) is probably when Ted writes to Debbie Reynolds Hotel & Casino, explaining how he would need special accommodations because of his resemblance to the late President Abraham Lincoln ... and the hotel writes back and assures him that many celebrities have stayed in the hotel with no problem and names a few such as "Rip Taylor"... Ted then writes back and says (and I quote), "But Sir, with all due respect, I cannot be compared to Rip Taylor. I am the 16th President of the United States. He throws confetti. I am a log splitter, a not so easy accomplishment." Haha... well, anyway, maybe you had to be there. ;) Definitely read this book if you need a mood-lifter, or anytime for a good laugh. Ted Nancy and Jerry Seinfeld are BOTH (hehe) comic geniuses. :) READ IT!

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Summary: Pee your pants funny
Review: My brother lent me this book, he said it was a scream. I have yet to return this book. If you are into subtle humor, you will love it. Ted has a gift for stating things in such a way if you don't see the humor in them, it could be over your head. Even some of the letters written back to him are funny, you can tell when some "gets it" and when they don't. I don't think this book is silly, I think it's amazing.

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Summary: An absolute scream...but who's the NUT??
Review: When Jerry Seinfeld introduces Ted L. Nancy's Letters from a Nut you know it's not going to be just another humor book. The premise is simple: Nancy (is it Jerry Seinfeld? Or Jerry's former collaborator Larry David? Or does Nancy exist -- or is he really some very SERIOUS author having fun?) writes seemingly serious, off-the-wall letters to various companies and indivduals. Some of the funniest are to hotels. In a 1996 letter he writes to the Las Vegas Hilton, saying he has saved up a long time for an Elvis concert and wants to make reservations for the croaked King's Sept 1996 show. Sometimes (as in the Hilton's letter)he gets back a form letter ignoring his letter's contents. Or sometimes, such as when he writes a hotel asking if they found his lost tooth, they answer seriously...as does the Disneyland Hotel, when he writes and asks if he could check in with his own ice machine (the hotel says no). This is laugh-out-loud stuff that you won't be able to put down: a letter to Nordstrom asking to buy a mannequin that looks like his deceased best friend; a letter to the University of Alabama praising the CITY of Alabama, etc. In each case, the complete letter is shown plus the often puzzled response. One note: this is modern "ironic" humor which means the humor isn't in just reading a single letter. It lies in reading the letter and THEN the response (or seeing a nonresponse). Nancy writes even nuttier follow up letters. FOOTNOTE: There are several additional books in the "Letters" series and they are all wonderfully, incredibly nutty. I own all three.

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Summary: Boring, repetitive and not funny
Review: This book was boring, repetitive and, for the most part, not funny. I don't know how it made it into print given that there are several other books with a similar premise authored by other writers that are substantially better. I'm surprised that Jerry Seinfeld put his name to this book. Is Ted L. Nancy a cousin... or possibly Jerry himself?

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Summary: Funniest book of the year!!!!
Review: This is a hillarious book written bye the mystery writer Ted L Nancy, and introduced by Jerry Seinfeld. I laughed for a long time reading these creative letters written to people such as hotel owners to casino owners and other businesses. Dont try reading these letters outloud to anyone, it is imossible to do with out laughing.

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Summary: Well worth the purchase price
Review: All three of the "Letters from a nut" books are absolutely hilarious. You will laugh until your side hurts at the author's ridiculous letters to companies around the world. Strangely enough, I had even ran across one of Mr. Nancy's letters to a nursing school in my home town of Springfield, MO which tells me that no company is safe from the author's hyjinks. This book is well worth the price as are all of the others.

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Summary: Breathe! Breathe!!!
Review: My lungs were screaming for air after reading only the second paragraph of the first letter in this book. The laughs produced here, I believe, are the type that all those scientists claim lengthen the life of an individual.

I recently had to face the tough decision of putting my dog down after she was suffering from abdominal cancer. It had been about two weeks since I had really sensed a positive nature, if not good humor, in me. Borrowing "Letters" from a friend, I crawled in bed late one night and began to peruse it.

This book is a proverbial bowl of peanuts...I wanted to stop to eventually get some rest, but the urge to indulge in just one more of Nancy's letters pushed me to read again and again, because I knew that, in just seconds, I'd be laughing to the point of burying my head in the pillow. I finally retired with a large grin plastered all over my face.

This book contains copies of letters sent to reputable organizations--everyone from Housekeeping Managers of Hotels, to Mr. Nordstrom, himself--and the responses each individual (or most, anyway) sent back. With one small detail: the scenarios in the letters sent by Mr. Nancy, unbeknownst to the recipients, are all FABRICATED. What you've got here, essentially, are the well-written, well-cloaked counterpart to crank phone calls, with the responding letters implying that the recipients most assumingly thought, "I'm not quite sure this Ted guy has 'all the ink in his pen,' but better my response to be safe, than sorry."

I'm one who really appreciates Nordstrom's special way of responding to customers. Still, I was sillied pink to read their documented accommodation of Ted's desire to purchase the mannequin in their storeroom display who happened to resemble his deceased neighbor ("it's uncanny," Ted remarks in his letter to the store, "eyes, cheekbones, right down to the rain slicker that I could see him wearing") I laugh even harder after reading the obliging manager's informing Ted that, strange that this particular model reminds him of his cherised dead male neighbor...all the mannequins in that particular storeroom are female.

This is Seinfeldian, "Far-Sideish", dry humor at its best, coming from a lethally-funny pen (Just whose pen it really is remains a mystery: some say Ted L. Nancy is Seinfeld's pseudonym; others say he merely collected the works from a secret scribe and published them. I say, whoever or whatever produces "wait...I can't breathe!" laughs, please, by all means, keep it coming. It just all adds up to bed-wetting laughs, as the one Hotel chain could appreciate, after Mr. Nancy informed them about his special needs as a "Level-4 Bed Wetter."

If this is your style of humor, or if you've been in search of a deep gutteral laugh after enduring one of life's tougher times, purchase this book and keep it as handy as your First Aid kit. I plan to access it frequently, laugh at it much, and share the humor with many.

It's a Sure Thing.

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Summary: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Review: This is funny. El no esta estupido, esta muy bueno. Yo soy muy enfermo.