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    <body><![CDATA[The basic premise: the author goes into Wendy's every day and fills out a comment card. The rest is hard to describe. An uneveningly-entertaining hodgepodge of incoherent ramblings, the entries -- dated over the course of just over a year -- range from the utterly random to the incomprehensibly jarg...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28772380">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[this ... is kind of amazing. two excerpts:<br/><br/>July 4, 1996<br/>I wonder what &quot;beauty&quot; really is. I know that the little girl, Wendy, who is pictured on your cups and bags, is beautiful, and so is the green green descent into the valley. Within this descent, I can feel the overpowe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42827739">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this book on the whole--at points a whole, whole lot.<br/><br/>I am fond of stories of regulars; I once manned a snack shack and I've known my fair share. Also--shhh!--long ago I WAS a regular who convened with other regulars. Shhh, shhh, shhh! <br/><br/>This is a book of &quot;Letters t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76639866">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[What I learned from this book:  <br/>Putting your dick in a Frosty, conjuring up a boner, and seeing how much spills out onto the Wendy's bathroom floor is how you really test for Frosty thickness.<br/>So much else, too.  The Lord likes Biggies, apparently.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The copy I have came with a CD of the audio version of this book.  It's read by Thomas Jay Ryan of &quot;Henry Fool&quot; fame.  His voice always seemed ideal for the voice of the author of the disturbing letters.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A simply astounding and unpredictable book. Though it sounds simple in premise--each page a comment card sized commentary on one man's state of mind--it explodes into various visceral and hilarious directions.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Enjoyment of this book hinges upon whether or not its reader shares tastes with teenage boys and monkeys. If, for better or worse, you never tire of watching smart people fling well-aimed doo-doo at things that should really just be annihilated, you might be popular with middle-school football teams...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7901088">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Before I read this book, I’d been trying to figure out why there is an apostrophe “s” in &quot;Letters to Wendy's.&quot; I was imagining a man writing letters to different women named Wendy, but then that wouldn’t explain the ‘s. But when I actually flipped through the book, I realized it ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6222033">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Funny, epic, small--all the things one should like in a collection poems/prose/prose poems. If mixing scatological talk regarding Wendy's eponymous mascot with post-modern literary theory and absurdism doesn't do it for you... What will?]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Maybe I was able to finish this book because I used to work at Wendy's.  There's a special hole in my bladder's imagination reserved for Joe Wenderoth.  Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is edgier than any of your books.  Go away!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I wanted to like this much more--I love the concept, the humor, the language, but in the end it needed a little bit more conceit for me to feel engaged.<br/><br/>I spent a lot of time with this book, and I think it had its desired effect on me:  nothing &quot;stuck&quot; except the exact moment I ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20812060">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book changed my life. When I was reading it I kept repeating &quot;I'm Lovin' It&quot; in my head. Realized after the fact that &quot;I'm Lovin' It&quot; was from McDonald's. Felt dirty inside. Still loved the book, though. Had a Wendy's &quot;Baja Wrap&quot; over the weekend because of this bo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70367003">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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