The Timewaster Letters

click here for more details, find new or used items	Robin Cooper New from £3.89 Used from £0.01 Pages: 192 (Paperback) ISBN: 1843171082 Pub: Michael O'Mara Books Pub date: 2004-09-20 Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 105275

Reader Reviews:

Boring and really not funny (0/1 people found this helpful)

The idea for this book is rather simple: write silly letters to various companies and get them to play along with the game. It sounds interesting at first but I found it rather tedious. I had one or two giggles but there's nothing that really made me laugh out loud and I thought that the book lived up to it's title - it really is a timewaster! If you want cranks then I'd recommend watching Fonejacker, which is a very funny show with guaranteed laughs.

Ok - funny in parts (0/0 people found this helpful)

I bought this as a result of an Amazon recommendation after purchasing and enjoying a couple of Guy Browning books. Whereas they were laugh out loud hilarious, this is mildly amusing verging at times on the childish, but nonetheless, enjoyable to read during the tedium of a 2 hour commute; anything to lighten the day is a good thing, right?!

Incredible Lateral Humour (2/2 people found this helpful)

Incredible lateral humour. That is the best way I can describe it. I don't know if that description is grammatically correct, but it is my way of saying great, super, marvellous. Robin Cooper obviously has a brilliant inventive mind. As others before me have said, it is a laugh out loud book and if you read it in public, expect to be looked at. I can highly reccomend it. I've only discovered it recently and there is, I have noticed a lot of Robin Cooper for me to catch up on. In a similar vein and humorous style, have a look at 'The Post Box at the Crossroads'.

Hilarious (1/1 people found this helpful)

It isn't often that a book makes me laugh out loud, but this is genuinely, side-splittingly funny. I drove my husband mad with it, to the point where he too had to read it in sheer self-defence.
The premise is simple, Robin Cooper, the author, picks random institutions and writes them letters of astonishing absurdity in the hope that they will write back and a correspondence can then ensue. You would think, given the patent lunacy of many of his letters, that he would be roundly ignored, but luckily for us, he does get replies, and these with the original letters are what makes up this book.
My particular favourites are the letters in which diagrams of the most terrible, wobbly penned quality are sent out with the letters in illustration of some madly random point, and then these are actually taken seriously by the correspondent. Genius, pure genius.
I am now on my third copy, having lent and mysteriously never been given back my previous two. Be warned this is a book you think you will dip into and then accidentally end up reading in one sitting, howling with laughter.

Utterly childish (1/1 people found this helpful)

Cooper.....you are without doubt, a complete git. You have abused busy peoples limited free time and made a mockery of the whole customer service system.
Furthermore, you seem to have made fools out of otherwise decent and helpful people guilty of nothing more than taking their professions seriously.

Keep it up!

EK

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