Letters from a Nut by Ted L. Nancy Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Letters from a Nut
Book Review: Absolutely Hysterical
Summary: 5 Stars
You may find it hard to believe that anyone could be so amused by a book. I had to buy this after laughing myself to tears in a bookstore. I was literally doubled over with laughter after reading the first few pages of this book. This is pure, side splitting humor at its best. I don't think I ever laughed so hard at something I've read. Even a person with the dullest sense of humor can find at least one letter in this book that will make it well worth the purchase price.Book Review: Actually, I have heard...
Summary: 5 Stars
...that the "real" Ted Nancy is, in Fact, Paul Reiser... NOT Jerry Seinfeld. Something to chew on... either way, this book is great...even for reading out loud at parties for laughs! :)Book Review: An OK book, but not all that funny.
Summary: 3 Stars
Ted Nancy sends a bunch of letters to people, his letters are rather crazy... and boring. There are the occasional funny letter, like the shrimp costume and the letter to the King of Tonga. But his endless letters to casinos will bore you. The similar, but much better, book "Wilber Winkle has a Complaint", is better if you are interested in prank letters.Book Review: An absolute scream...but who's the NUT??
Summary: 5 Stars
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.Book Review: Apologies for laughing out loud
Summary: 5 Stars
This is definately the best book I ever read! How many times does it happen that you read a book and suddenly start to laugh out loud, with tears on your cheeks? Buy this and see...Oh BTW, last week I saw a picture of the King of Togo on TV and suddenly started grinning...