The Hamster That Loved Puccini: The Seven Modern Sins of Christmas Round-robin Letters |
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Simon Hoggart
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Pages: 176 (Hardcover)
ISBN: 1843544741
Pub: Atlantic Books
Pub date: 2005-11-29
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 128033
Reader Reviews:
A Delightful Little Book, Full of Chuckles (0/0 people found this helpful)
This is a lightweight book, highly enjoyable, easy to browse and delightfully suitable for dipping into in idle moments. It will appeal to anyone who enjoys television's `Grumpy Men/Women' programmes in its highlighting of the way many people behave without considering the effects their behaviour has on others. Many of the instances of people's gushing into Christmas `round-robin' letters are barely credible, but all permit our credibility when we consider just how stupidly self-centred many people are. Still an ideal `stocking-filler' despite its publishing date!
My Cat Loved This Book (0/0 people found this helpful)
Alright then! My wife loved it when it gave it to her as a stocking-filler. And you should, too. Along with The Cat That Could open the Fridge, and Noel and Ellen's more recent parody. It's time the writers of Christmas round-robins were really made to squirm...
Hilarious! (8/8 people found this helpful)
I can't remember the last time that I read a book that was so laugh out funny! Ideal for skimming, or you can easily find yourself reading through a chapter. This is one of those books that you read and think that it would make an ideal present for so many people. A fantastic buy.
THE FUNNIEST BOOK I'VE READ FOR YEARS (25/25 people found this helpful)
This book solves about a dozen Christmas presents! I have just finished reading THE HAMSTER, which a friend told me made her laugh so much she had to get off the tube as people were looking at her strangely. It really is that funny. Simon Hoggart has collected hundreds of those terrible 'Round Robin' Christmas letters - the perfect children, the endless lists of medical mishaps, the poems written by the dog, the pages about friends we've never heard of - and extracted nuggets of pure surreality. These would be funny enough on their own but it is his commentary that makes you laugh aloud.
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