Dear Luke, We Need to Talk: and Other Pop-Culture Correspondencesby John Moe [817 Moe]
This
is a sometimes-hilarious, sometimes-annoying collection of fake
correspondences between pop-culture icons. From the handwritten notes of
Darth Vader to his newly-discovered son Luke Skywalker, trying to
explain his status as an absentee father, to bitingly satirical
inteviews with various Disney animated personnel discussing the
conundrum about Goofy and Pluto both being dogs, humorist John Moe
skewers dozens of different pop culture standards. And the formats of
correspondence that he mocks are equally entertaining -- letters,
e-mails, journal entries, Don Draper's cocktail recipe notecards,
poetry, extended Fight Club rules lists, the formats go on and on. I
found myself smiling and giggling at about 65% of the content of this
breezy collection. Unfortunately, the other 35% was either un-funny or
somewhat insulting or insensitive. Or, unfortunately, boring and
repetitive, which applies to a long, drawn-out series of Super Bowl
Half-Time proposals, which became tiresome very quickly. None-the-less,
the portions of this humor collection that "clicked" more than make up
for the portions which fell flat, and I do recommend it to anyone with
their finger on the pulse of pop-culture!
-- recommended by Scott C. - Bennett Martin Public Library [
see Scott's Reviewer Profile and more of his reviews ]
[If you enjoy this, you may also wish to try the
Lazlo letters books by Don "Father Guido Sarducci" Novello,
Idiot Letters by Paul Nosa, and the satirical news collections by the editor of
The Onion.]
[ official Dear Luke... web page on the official Wits Radio web site - hosted by John Moe ]
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