Letters from a Nut by Ted L. Nancy Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Letters from a Nut
Book Review: Best Coffee Table Book I Know Of
Summary: 5 Stars
This is without a doubt one of the only books that can make ANYONE LAUGH (and they laugh hard!)I have shown this and the second book (More Letters From A Nut) to many people and have yet to see one person read even one of the letters without laughing. (There's a third book, too.)
Great fun!
ONE WARNING!: This book, although hilarious, contains a few ideas that are not suitable for younger children (only a few cases, but enough.)
Book Review: Best Laugh In Years
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of the funniest books I have ever read. I laughed out loud throughout the entire book. The author is dry and brillant. This Nancy (If in fact he is not Jerry) is hilarious. The best tongue and cheek work I have ever seen. My favorite letter was about the shrimp costume. I tried to tell people about this letter and could not get through the letter without laughing. There is a copy on the bedside table of my guest room. I always check for it when people leave.Book Review: Blues Breaker
Summary: 5 Stars
This hilarious book and its' sequel 'More Letters From A Nut' are by my bed. If I've had a stressful day, I read a letter. If I've had a horrible day I read two letters. It never fails to make me smile or laugh out loud. Warning : Don't read this on an airplane, someone will have to be called to restrain you.Book Review: Boring, repetitive and not funny
Summary: 1 Stars
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?Book Review: Breathe! Breathe!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
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.