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  <title><![CDATA[Idiot Letters]]></title>
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  <default_description>Look out, public relations; take cover, customer service -- Paul Rosa's letter is in the mail and his inventively imbecilic queries about consumer products have a way of eliciting equally idiotic and even more unlikely answers from some of America's biggest companies.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1995</original_publication_year>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1996</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Paul Rosa is hilarious. He writes crazy letters to corporations and then publishes their responses. Of course, this was published before email became commonplace. I wrote the author and he sent me some funny bumperstickers.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a series of short letters to major corporations.  It is probably one of the funniest things I've ever put my face in.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is just as you would imagine.  It is worth the read, however save it until you have nothing else to read.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Total rip off. Read Letters from Nut by Ted L. Nancy (aka Jerry Seinfeld). Letters from a Nut in general is a lot more light-spirited and humorous compared to Idiot Letters]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was an okay book, amusing at times, kind of boring most of the time.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Funny.  This book is what the other &quot;letters&quot;-books strive to be.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wilbert Winkler is waaaaay funnier.]]></body>
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