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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. "Mildly Amusing Letters & etc." might have been a more appropriate title for this book. Some of them are truly laugh-out-loud amusing (Benjamin Franklin's 'Model of a Letter of Recommendation of a Person You Are Unacquainted With," Herbert Hoover's commiseration with a young correspondent about having to eat spinach at a White House lunch, Gustave Flaubert's brushoff of a persistent female, GBShaw's exchange of messages with Winston Churchill, Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson's veto of a cat bill, etc.), but most of them simply bring a smile to the lips...if that. (Even some of the 'funny people's [Groucho Marx, Fred Allen]' letters aren't all that hilarious.) Not a complete waste of time, to be sure, but, in the long run, perhaps more appropriate selections might have been made. ( ) This was one of those "candy" books, you know, the sort you nibble on from time to time? I've always liked Charles Osgood. He's that reporter/correspondent from CBS that always makes up poems in his reports. This is a compilation of letters written by a wide variety of folks, from Mark Twain to Groucho Marx, Fred Allen to Hermione Gingold, Chopin and Mozart to Abraham Lincoln. Some are business letters, others are personal notes to friends or relatives. I hadn't seen any of them in print before and some of them are doozies. The book is filled with more chuckle provoking letters. I really liked it. I'd give it a 5. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
In this humorous collection of celebrity wit, acclaimed broadcaster and humorist Charles Osgood offers witticisms penned by luminaries ranging from Abraham Lincoln to Andy Rooney. Known for his clever commentary and witty radio-show rhymes, Charles Osgood here selects and introduces a collection of hilarious correspondence from some of our best-loved politicians, authors, and stars of the stage and screen. Funny Letters from Famous People delivers rib-tickling communications from the likes of Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Flannery O’Connor, S. J. Perelman, Groucho Marx, Bob Hope, John Cheever and dozens more. Providing an entertaining look at celebrated lives, Osgood lets us glimpse Mark Twain squabbling with the gas company, Dwight D. Eisenhower kvetching to Mamie about Patton, and radio personality Fred Allen desperately seeking logic from his insurance carrier in one of comedy’s most amusing epistles. Sprinkled throughout with Osgood’s own humorous quips, Funny Letters from Famous People is a delightful compendium of clever letter writing at its side-splitting best. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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