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Summary: JUST BUY IT
Review: 'Wilber Winkle' challenges even the best customer service representatives with his witty letters. Written with the perfect tone -- serious enough to get the customer reps to actually send repsonse letters back, but so insanely obscure you're left wondering "Where the heck does he come up with these things?!". I could not stop laughing! I hope there is a sequel!
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Summary: Praise for Wilber Winkle Has a Complaint!
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This book is hilarious! Wilber Winkle is an American treasure.
--Larry King, host of CNN's "Larry King Live"
This is perfect. Who knew? It turns out that reality is the wackiest cartoon of all. Witness this bizarre and wonderful collection of correspondence. This book could put me out of work. If Wilber's pastime catches on, people won't need TV. They can entertain themselves through the U.S. mail.
--Phil Hartman, concerned comedian
and star of NBC's "News Radio"
[Wilber is] a nebbishy Ralph Nader who confronts the issues that drive us all crazy. . . . the letters are laugh-out-loud funny. . . .
--American Bookseller magazine
Wilber Winkle is . . . every man. That is, every man who's ever been rankled by the corporate machines running this country-or the stooges that work for them. . . . Winkle proves that the pen is not only mightier than the sword, but a lot funnier, too.
--David Jasper, Tampa Weekly Planet
A corporate crusader . . . . [Wilber is] a cross between Dave Barry and Dilbert.
--Alecia Swaysy, St. Petersburg Times
Not since Ignatius J. Reilly in A Confederacy of Dunces have I run into someone this persnickety. I empathize and sympathize with Wilber. Some might say his concerns are trivial. I think he has the good of the country in mind. This book made me laugh out loud on numerous occasions. Hopefully Wilber will either get into politics or join the "60 Minutes" team. I do believe this is one person who can finally get to the bottom of things.
--Anthony Clark, star of NBC's "Boston Common"
At first glance I thought, he is a nut with too much time on his hands. I still do but I have to say it made me laugh and laugh.
--Linda Mack Ross, author of "The Smart Consumer's Book of Questions"
Hooray for Wilber Winkle, the Ralph Nader of morons, railing against all the inanities of day-to-day life. Is there a deeper message in the ramblings of this contemporary crusader? . . . I don't think so. Just sit back and laugh.
--Randy Feldman, screenwriter, "Tango & Cash"
Wilber Winkle makes Ralph Nader look like Barney Fife! Riotously funny . . . in Wilber's hands, the business letter is a literary hand grenade.
--Kevin Cowherd, author of "Last Call at the 7-Eleven" and Baltimore Sun columnist
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Summary: Some light relief
Review: Complain!com REVIEW: Some light relief. The real life escapades of John Homans posing as the ever reasonable and intelligent (sic) Wilber Winkle. The stars of the book are the idiot responses that Wilber evokes from real companies. My favorite is Wilber's letter to the head of Comcast cable complaining about his neighbor who is stealing cable service. - Priscilla
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Summary: One of the funniest books ever written...
Review: I enjoyed the "Letters from a Nut" series of books. But this book is even better. The author not only writes with his strange requests/questions, but he continues to reply over and over. It's almost unbelieveable how some of his letters are responded to. He puts a lot of thought into his letters, making them outright hilarious. Letter's from a Nut is good, but Wilber Winkle is great!
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Summary: One of the funniest books ever written...
Review: I enjoyed the "Letters from a Nut" series of books. But this book is even better. The author not only writes with his strange requests/questions, but he continues to reply over and over. It's almost unbelieveable how some of his letters are responded to. He puts a lot of thought into his letters, making them outright hilarious. Letter's from a Nut is good, but Wilber Winkle is great!
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Summary: One of the funniest books ever written...
Review: I enjoyed the "Letters from a Nut" series of books. But this book is even better. The author not only writes with his strange requests/questions, but he continues to reply over and over. It's almost unbelieveable how some of his letters are responded to. He puts a lot of thought into his letters, making them outright hilarious. Letter's from a Nut is good, but Wilber Winkle is great!
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Summary: Wilber Winkle Fan Club president says buy this book!
Review: I enjoyed this book so much that I decided to become president of his fan club. The letters I enjoyed the most were those trying to get a pet gorilla on Carnival Cruise Lines and trying to get free soda refills for the entire family at Wendy's. This book provides hours of fun for everyone.
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Summary: Hats Off !!!!...to Mr. Wilber Winkle.....the New Age Hero
Review: I was sitting in my office when a package from Amazon, containing this book, was delivered. Luckily, i was not so busy that day. Reading the first few letters had me laughing out so hard and loud that my employees got puzzled. Seeing me laugh in that particular fashion, my secretary too seemed totally bamboozled. She didn't know whether to laugh or to keep her face straight. I'm quite sure my staff must have discussed behind my back that their boss had gone mad. If you don't believe me guys, you gotta read this book. Mr. Wilber Winkle is not only our new age hero but also a very good comedy writer. His use of logic, sentence formation, vocab. etc seem almost perfect. I guess, the reason his book generates so much laughter is his way of complaining a funny problem in a very serious fashion through perfect english usage. I would love to meet this guy sometime.
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Summary: Intelligent and laugh-out-loud funny
Review: One of the better books of this genre and suprisingly intelligent and witty. Winkle tackles targets that legitmately annoy him (and us, his readers) and doesn't give up until he gets a satisfactory resolution to his complaints. For some authors in this genre, simply getting an answer to a stupid letter is the punchline. Not so for Winkle, who demands real answers to his complaints. It's his targets' own unwillingness to co-operate that makes them look foolish (and reveals their real attitude toward consumers) and this provides much of the humor for the book. This is less a "prank" letter book than it is a manual on the art of effective consumer complaining, but this doesn't detract at all from its laugh-out-loud humor. Winkle is an odd and wonderful mixture of consumer crusader and merry prankster.
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Summary: Intelligent and laugh-out-loud funny
Review: So funny. Quick, light reading. Very enjoyable
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