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Tough Call: Hard-hitting Phone Pranks | 
| Author: Mike Loew
Publisher: Boxtree Ltd
Category: Book
Buy New: $9.79
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 2930490
Media: Paperback
Pages: 224
ISBN: 0752219057
Dewey Decimal Number: 818.5402
EAN: 9780752219059
ASIN: 0752219057
Publication Date: April 20, 2001
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Product Description
'Hi. This is Mike Loew - I'm calling from Los Angeles...' Mike Loew terrorises innocent phone victims in this hilarious collection of phone pranks. Outrageous but true, these transcripts of real phone conversations follow Mike taking on various verbal disguises to torment his befuddled victims. Targets vary from the Council on Drug Abuse which he rings for advice on how to deal with his pot-smoking eight-year-old, to NASA, whom he rings up posing as a 900-pound man in need of a zero-gravity system for his home. Mike will do some calls in England specially for this edition of the book.
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 Hit and miss February 7, 2003
This book is strickly bathroom reading, and I only found one or two call transcripts to be genuinely funny. A few more gave cause to grin. Some were simply cruel for no good reason. Fine for three minutes at a stretch, but this does not compare in quantity or quality to any of the Onion volumes. Should you buy? That's a tough call...
 [bad] January 25, 2003
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I wish I could get my money back on this book. It took me forever
to read it and I still did not finish it. Threw it in the
trash can. It may have been more funny on a cd.
Save your money people
Is the book itself a joke? June 16, 2002
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
So, it's transcriptions of prank calls? What about actually just putting it on a CD? Now that's an idea! Seriously? Who allowed a book of prank phone calls to be published in an era of downloadable soundfiles? A ludite?
A book about phone calls....? November 7, 2001
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
As a big fan of both the Jerky Boys and The Onion, I decided to give Tough Call a try. On the plus side, there are some really funny transcripts in this book, especially the finale where Mike tries to set up an arms deal with a Brazillian weapons dealer. The minus side is this: It's not as funny in print as it could be in an audio format. The book is pretty slim, so I'd advise prospective readers to check out the sample pages above to see if it's their cup of tea.
It's funny, but it's no Onion book.... July 28, 2000
26 out of 27 found this review helpful
The front of "Tough Call" says that the author, Mike Loew is "Contributing Editor to The Onion and one of the authors of the ...Our Dumb Century". And that was good enough for me. I really love the Onion books and their website.But this book is something entirely different than what I've become accustomed to with The Onion series. "Tough Call" is just a scribe detailing alleged prank phone calls that Mike Loew has made. But in the development of this book, one thing seems to be overlooked; Transcriptions of phony phone calls are not nearly as funny as hearing them. The joy of a phone prank is to hear the reaction o the other person on the line while they're being confused by a calm and scheming prankster. The Jerky Boys have a good system for making prank phone calls, but when you read the text, it's not nearly as funny as hearing a recording of the actual conversation. Mike Loew is obviously a funny guy, just to think up this stuff, but writing a book of phone call translations is a prankster's equivalent to telling a fishing story; we're skeptical about the details and have no way of knowing where the embellishment is in the story. It's still a pretty funny book, but if you think you're buying another Onion-style and humor quality book, think again.
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