Order from a Major Online Bookstore
Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine
Save Your Time And Money
| AnyBook4Less.com | Order from a Major Online Bookstore |
|
| Home | Store List | FAQ | Contact Us | | ||
| Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine Save Your Time And Money |
||
 |
Title: Citizen Lazlo!: The Continuing, Unrelenting Correspondence of Lazlo Toth, American! (Citizen Lazlo!) by Don Novello ISBN: 1-56305-182-6 Publisher: Workman Publishing Pub. Date: 01 July, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Move Over, Father Guido!
Comment: Now that we have imitation Lazlo Toth's - even the Jerkey Boys are derivative, aren't they! - let's not forget that the same guy who puts on the big hat and sunglasses can be someone else when he wants to be.
I just wish he would have lunch with me at Sushi-To-Die-For?
Are you game?
Rating: 4
Summary: LIke most sequels, it's not a potent as the original
Comment: As interesting as it is to see Novello expand upon his letter writing, there's something disappointing about this second volume. Perhaps it's the introductio of Lazlo into a world in which he's already known. The responses from correspondents who already "get the joke" make one feel as though they're peeking behind the Wizard's curtain.
Still, given the pungence of the concept and the quality of Novello's writing, this couldn't help but be another good read. It just couldn't possibly live up to the original volume.
Rating: 5
Summary: As funny (for different reasons) as 'The Lazlo Letters'
Comment: The original book ('The Lazlo Letters') was set in the mid-70s and was essentially a tremedously funny, well-executed goof on Watergate and its participants. 'Citizen Lazlo' is wider in its timeframe (1977 - 1992) and focus (all over the map).
For flat out hilarity, nothing can beat (as mentioned by an earlier reviewer) the "Fit For a President Microwave TV Dinner" idea that 'Toth' pitches to the Campbell Soup Company. [Sample: Nixon-Mao Frozen Chinese Banquet...eat the meal that ended 23 years of hostility.]
My favorite has got to be his pitch to Kinney Shoes for a new advertising campaign based on "The Wind Beneath My Wings," entitled "The Feet Within My Shoes":
Did I ever tell you you're my hero?
Tho' you're the farthest parts of me
I can run faster than a beagle
You are the feet beneath my knees
The cadence of these letters continues the unique, hilarious style perfected by Novello/Toth in his first book. Check out a sample greeting to Nicolae Ceausescu in 1988: "Belated Happy Birthday! Stand up! You deserve it!"
Truly laugh-out-loud funny stuff.
One note of interest: since this is the second volume, some of the respondents are in on the joke. Those that are respond with a matching level of humor.
 |
Title: Idiot Letters: One Man's Relentless Assault on Corporate America by Paul Rosa ISBN: 038547508X Publisher: Main Street Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1995 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
 |
Title: Wilber Winkle Has a Complaint! by Wilber Winkle ISBN: 0963124641 Publisher: Bancroft Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
 |
Title: Hire Me Dumbass! by Joe Mozian ISBN: 0971974705 Publisher: Dumbass Publications Pub. Date: 14 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
 |
Title: Extra Nutty!: Even More Letters from a Nut by Ted L. Nancy ISBN: 0312261551 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
 |
Title: Consumer Joe : Harassing Corporate America, One Letter at a Time by Paul Davidson ISBN: 076791502X Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 09 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Thank you for visiting www.AnyBook4Less.com and enjoy your savings!
Copyright� 2001-2021 Send your comments
