- Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: Atlantic Books; Reprint edition (8 Oct 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1843546671
- ISBN-13: 978-1843546672
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 2.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 278,430 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"'The funniest book of last year was The Cat That Could Open the Fridge, and I thought it would be impossible to better it. But his new assault on round robins, The Hamster That Loved Puccini, is even funnier... I could hardly hold the pen through paroxysms of cachinnation, or focus on the page through tears of mirth.' Spectator 'Wonderfully, horribly funny.' Martin Rowson, Independent on Sunday 'With Hoggart's wicked commentary, the dullest imaginable gobbets of useless information are transformed into gems of hilarity.' Christopher Matthew, Daily Mail"
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Simon Hoggart is the ultimate Christmas curmudgeon. Every year about this time, unwanted round robins, stuffed with news of young Chloe's nauseating excellence at - well - everything, the announcement of Janet's cousin's husband's friend's divorce, or the details of Terry's colonoscopy, accumulate on doormats, and Simon Hoggart decided to do something about it. In 2004, he mercilessly presented the most eye-popping examples of such letters in his bestseller, "The Cat that Could Open the Fridge", and followed it up with "The Hamster that Loved Puccini", hoping he had put a stop to them. And yet the letters, booklets and photo-montages kept on coming. So here, to drive home his message, "The Christmas Letters" brings together his two collections in an anthology that will have everyone choking with laughter on their Christmas pudding.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Round-robin letters are no substitute for real letters. Real letters care about who they are written to. Round-robins care only about the writer. I rest my case. More evidence can be found in my review of "The Cat that Could Open the Fridge", M'lud. I also call upon "Noel & Ellen's Weird and Wonderful History of the Dreaded Christmas Newsletter" as a character witness. Calling...
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
All these cases for and against the prosecution of the round robin genre seem rather to miss the point. This book makes you snort with laughter in the way that makes stangers edge away from you on the bus. Simon Hoggart is uniformly brilliant in the Guardian and his linking passages and introductions to these ludicrous letters is as funny as the letters themselves.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Two books combined into one book but each taking a half means that you feel that it repeats itself.For me a far better idea would be to have mixed the two books together for a more entertaining whole.Having said that it is very funny in places,annoying and just plain boring in others.Avoid the sections on travel difficulties as they are just DULL.Best bits for me were the Religious sections(hilarious) and the gifted children parts.The most illuminating sections were those where the letter recipients have put their own notes in about the writers which are always revealing and funny..I think more of those would make a better read particularly as you have no point of reference to the people featured in the letters so these asides give you a bigger picture.All in all not bad.But to all those round robin writers keep em coming because the world would be a poorer place without them!
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