More Letters from a Nut

by Ted L. Nancy | Humor |
ISBN: 0553109588 Global Overview for this book
Registered by wingGoryDetailswing of Nashua, New Hampshire USA on 5/7/2008
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Journal Entry 1 by wingGoryDetailswing from Nashua, New Hampshire USA on Wednesday, May 7, 2008
I found this slightly-battered hardcover, minus its dust jacket, among the charity-sale books at a local Hannaford supermarket. [They sell donated books for a dollar or so, with the proceeds going to various local charities.]

I'd first read this book some time back via this bookring, and enjoyed it, so I was glad to pick up another copy to release. And I can copy my comments from the other book, thusly:

This turned out to be more fun than I expected; I'd been wondering if I'd find it sad that so many hapless secretaries had to spend time dealing with this lunatic's letters, but - while there were some who just seemed beleaguered - there were quite a few recipients who caught the spirit of the thing perfectly.

One of the better ones was from the city of Las Cruces, NM; in response to a blatantly frivolous Nancy letter about opening over a thousand restaurants in the same town and hiring multiple thousands of people to wear mosquito costumes as advertising, the Las Cruces business-permit folk drafted a wonderful 4-page reply that appears to be in deadly earnest - until you pick up on the details, and the closing "We definitely believe your proposal sucks" {grin}. Another good one was from Lewisville TX; Nancy claimed he had a deed giving him ownership of the city and wanted to know who to talk to about it, and the response was a very cheery letter congratulating him - and asking how he did it, so that the letter-writer could obtain a city in Texas for herself. And Broken Arrow, OK's building inspector wrote a hilarious reply to Nancy's query about opening an unusual assortment of theme restaurants. [It seems that the city officials in general pick up on these things more quickly than some of the other businesses... or maybe it was just that Nancy's letters to them were so obviously bogus.]

There were quite a few letters that had me laughing out loud in themselves, though the replies weren't especially interesting - the one where he's claiming to have awakened from a coma to find that his wife left him for another guy in a coma, or the letter to Sears that ends "Hey, whatever happened to Roebuck? You never hear about him anymore".

In the "is this funny or isn't it" category: well, there was a series of letters to various prisons in which Nancy offered to come and perform a variety of bizarre-sounding acts. Most offers were refused, with varying degrees of civility - but one was accepted. No word on followup, if any... One wonders what that person felt like when this book came out.

There were also several letters to various hotels or other businesses in Turkey, most of which were responded to in a polite-but-baffled tone; I was getting annoyed with Nancy for picking on the Turks, and then I came across the letter about camel wrestling; for that one, the Turks gave as good as they got!

[While I did enjoy these letters, I came across another quirky letter-writer whose work I liked even more: check out The Complete Henry Root Letters.]

Released 15 yrs ago (5/22/2008 UTC) at Panera Bread - 8 Spit Brook Rd. Near DW Highway in Nashua, New Hampshire USA

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I left the book in one of the free-newspaper racks in the entrance of Panera Bread at about 5:30. Hope the finder enjoys it!

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