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Summary: Finally someone was willing to break the mold!
Review: I have read a variety of the available crank letter books and although I did find the early releases - Lazlo Letters, Letters From a Nut, to be hilarious, all that have followed since have relied on the same original gag. Every few years or so a new author or sequel emerges with the same idea, mostly to the same companies, and sadly with the same theme in the letters to each. Finally someone was willing, or clever enough, to break the mold! What intrigued me and excited me about Hire Me Dumbass, was that Joe Mozian (who bravely uses his real name unlike most previous crank letters authors) was able to change the concept enough, making his letters fresh and topical. He did not set out to write crank letters just for the purpose of being a crankster. He had a real cause. He really is the guy he's writing about in all of his queries. His letters seem more to have been written by a crank anarchist than from one of the dime-a-dozen humorist wannabees rehashing the original idea. Even the replies, though few compared with most crank letter books, are a testamonial of the indifference towards job hunters by human resource managers. The classic example of this is the generic postcard rejection Joe receives from Carvel. The note thanks him for his application to Carvel then lists three check boxes with reasons as to why Joe is not going to be considered for employment with Carvel. The sender merely checks off the box that best suits Joe and feels accomplished in is his/her job duties. It's interesting to note also that most other crank letters books are praised more for their replies than for the humor in the letters. The Hire Me Dumbass letters brilliantly stand on their own. To say this book is the best in the genre would certainly be an overstatement, but it's filled with enough laughs and finally 'originality' to make it a valuable addition to any humor fan's collection.
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Summary: Outstanding!
Review: I never laugh out loud while reading. This book had me howling like a fool as I read it on a plane during a recent trip. Both passangers on my left and right eventually asked me what I was reading. Mr. Mozian may not have a job, but he has my attention. I am waiting patiently for whatever comes next. A real American humorist in the making.
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Summary: My face hurt I laughed so much!
Review: I read it the first time by myself and I found myself laughing so hard that people on the plane were staring! The second time I read it out loud in front of friends after a dinner party and they were falling off the couch! I know a number of people who have been let go recently and I have recommended this book to them to pick up their spirits. This is a perfect book for the times. These irreverant letters are ones that everyone would like to write and a must read for all HR people.
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Summary: Read this book in public!
Review: I thought I could get away with just skimming through this book at a local book store. I could not. I found myself stopping too often to catch my breath from laughing. It was a bit embarassing to say the least. It was the kind of laughter that the more you try to control, the harder you laugh. Several people actually asked me what I was reading and went off to find the book themselves. That laugh was a great experience and had to have added a few years to my life. Ended up buying the book and continue to read in public.
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Summary: misleading premise
Review: I thought this book would be a collection of resumes/cover letters/etc. actually submitted to various companies -- instead it's all written by the author. yes, some of them are funny, but his schtick gets tired after a while. Save your money -- read a few while standing in the store.
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Summary: This Book Will Save Your Sanity!!
Review: I'd heard the buzz about Hire Me Dumbass, so I decided to check it out for myself. I bought it and immediately read it from cover to cover as soon as I received it. When I started to read, I wondered if I'd get bored halfway through, as by then the "joke" of these crazy letters would be old. But Joe kept coming up with different scenarios, so the book is fresh, funny, and fabulous from cover to cover! (I laughed so hard that my husband had to close his office door to concentrate while I read.) I'm not sure which letters are my favorite, but there's a part where he "confuses" letters to Kia and Ikea that caused me to hyperventilate. Beyond just being clever, I think the book particularly resonated with me because, I, too am unemployed and have tried practically everything to get hired since my layoff in 2001. It has been so frustrating! But reading what Joe did to keep himself sane not only amused me, but also inspires me! So now every time I have another lousy interview, or get dinged for the perfect job, I only have to read Joe's book to get a smile on my face! Buy this book and you will smile, too! Thanks, Joe... you rock!!
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Summary: Helping Me Laugh
Review: I've been unemployed for a while now, and this book helped me deal with my situation. The author is in a predicament too many Americans are in, but he has an unbelievable ability to not take it too seriously. This collection of letters kept me laughing from cover to cover. I'm buying it for all my unemployed friends to help them remember that there's more to life than a job.
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Summary: 'Sticken it to the man' humor at its best.
Review: If you are unemployed or stuck in a go no-where job because 'the man is holding you down', this book will make you happy. This guy does something about it in a funny, unthreatening way. It appears he even self publishes these letters, as if to give one more little jab to the 'man'. His letter to his very own father is priceless.
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Summary: Finding Solace on the Unemployment Line
Review: If you've ever been laid off, like most of my friends and I currently are, you know how frustrating stock rejection letters can be. Joe Mozian is speaking back for us all by challenging corporate America with his irreverent, gut busting sense of humor. He sends the letters none of us have the guts to send our-self. I laughed for three weeks after reading this book. Buy it, you'll feel like you're back in the game. We'll not really but you'll laugh really hard and feel better while counting your remaing weeks of unemployment.
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Summary: A disappointment
Review: In the hands of the right eccentric correspondent - Lazlo Toth, Sterling Huck or Ted L. Nancy, for example - prank letter writing can be an art. Unfortunately, Joe Mozian is no artist. A friend gave me this book as a present recently, knowing my penchant for collecting weird humor stuff and specifically, prank letter books. The title turned me off right away, but I gave it a chance. I turned page after page without laughing once. It's crude, pedestrian and as the title suggests, dumb.
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