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Drop Us a Line... Sucker!: The Prank Letters of James and Stuart Wade | 
| Authors: James C. Wade, Stuart Wade
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 299034
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Pages: 165
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.3 x 0.8
ISBN: 0786702052
Dewey Decimal Number: 818.5407
EAN: 9780786702053
ASIN: 0786702052
Publication Date: July 1995
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Product Description
For more than five years, James Wade, an American businessman living in Switzerland, has been firing off preposterous letters to organizations all over the world, trying to determine whether he can elicit serious replies to bizarre inquiries that are worded to appear as if they may be legitimate. Among the companies he has contacted are Hertz, Listerine, and the Swiss Cheese Union.
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One of the funniest books I've ever read August 7, 1999
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is easily in the top three funniest books I've ever read(and I've read alot.) The imagination behind the Wade brother'sletters themselves is incredible. And clearly their targets just don't get it. Please, Wade brothers, do this again!
A Satirical Trojan Horse!!! June 21, 1999
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The authors do a masterful job of exposing the humorless self-importance of the subjects of their correspondence. The discerning reader will detect a strain of melancholy and futility running throughout the mirthless, dehumanized responses to the authors' inquiries. Bravo, Brothers Wade!
Simply GREAT ! June 20, 1999
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
For those with a good sense of humor ... this is a must read !! I knew the book just a little before Mr. James Wade came to my school. Then he was my professor in a great management course. You can't imagine how fun and professional this great person is. The book gives perfectly the image of how "Woody" is creative ! Do not miss this hilarious peace of work !!
Do not try this at home June 17, 1999
I got this book a couple years ago and love it. It's great to take to places where you'll have to wait a while because you don't need to read it from beginning to end- you can open it to anyplace and flip around. I loved how the Wade brothers assumed the identies of all sorts of people, from mental patients to animal jewelry designers. It just shows how versatile they are. Their letters are always formal, though hilarious (such as asking Listerine for recipies and trying to find a house shaped like a W that can withstand atomic bombs). An excellent book for long- or short-term reading.
Laughs with class - reality can be funny. May 16, 1997
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A very good follow up to MY BUSH PIG'S NAME IS BORIS, Humorist James "Woody" Wade is joined by his brother, Stu "Pointster" Wade in this effort. It's great to see that the business world can poke fun at itself by doing nothing more than business as usual. Can be easily read in one sitting if you don't mind cleaning up after yourself from time to time
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