Customer Reviews
Boring and really not funny - By: K. Roycroft, 27 Mar 2008 
The idea for this book is rather simple: write silly letters to various companies & 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 & 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.
Ok - funny in parts - By: Baggiesfaninessex, 23 Mar 2008 
I bought this as a result of an Amazon recommendation after purchasing & 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?!
Hilarious - By: Mrs. K. A. Wheatley, 20 Nov 2007 
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 itin sheer self-defence.
The premise is simple, Robin Cooper, the author, picks random institutions & writes them letters of astonishing absurdityin the hope that they will write back & 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, & these with the original letters are what makes up this book.
My particular favourites are the lettersin which diagrams of the most terrible, wobbly penned quality are sent out with the lettersin illustration of some madly random point, & then these are actually taken seriously by the correspondent. Genius, pure genius.
I am now on my third copy, having lent & mysteriously never been given back my previous two. Be warned this is a book you think you will dip into & then accidentally end up readingin one sitting, howling with laughter.
Utterly childish - By: E. King, 27 Sep 2007 Cooper.....you are without doubt, a complete git. You have abused busy peoples limited free time & made a mockery of the whole customer service system.
Furthermore, you seem to have made fools out of otherwise decent & helpful people guilty of nothing more than taking their professions seriously.
Keep it up!
EK
Juvenile - By: Strath_Bookworm, 30 Jul 2007 Readong through this I was reminded of stuff my mates & 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, & this self-consciously ironic style smacks of someone who grew up with Blackadder but has not means of moving on from it.
