Emails from an A**hole: Real People Being Stupid

by John Lindsay

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“It's like Sasha Baron Cohen on the internet." - Jane Wells, CNBC

When John Lindsay launched DontEvenReply.com in June 2009, it became an instant sensation. With 60% of the book featuring entirely new material never before available on the website, Emails from an Asshole offers fans a fresh opportunity to revel in people's gullibility. Posing as a customer or seller, Lindsay responded to a variety of classified ads, making ridiculous offers to unsuspecting victims. Their responses, and the show more ensuing conversations, will have readers simultaneously laughing non-stop and gasping with disbelief.

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Only those with infantile senses of humour will enjoy this book. Fortunately, my sense of humour is indeed infantile at best, so I thoroughly enjoyed "Emails from an Asshole", laughing merrily as Lindsay winds up his hapless victims.

The premise is simple and has been done many times: writer trolls idiot on website. However, Lindsay does it better than almost anyone (although one has to wonder how true are all the stories) and I found myself guffawing loudly throughout the book, especially (SPOILER ALERT) at the plight of the teenage girl asked to kill horses, chop them up with a chainsaw and dump them in a neighbour's lake.

Sure, some people will dislike this book but are they people you would want to hang around with? Well, considering show more that my partner thinks the book is childish and unfunny, and I still want to hang around her, yes, but that's only because she's attractive. Any ugly people who dislike this book will be getting very short shrift from me. show less
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Книгата е точно описана в заглавието - авторът е гъз, а хората са глупави.

Базира се на форумните постове на един, който гледа обяви в интернет и се бъзика с тия, които са ги пуснали, като им праща абсурдни имейли.

Щеше да бъде смешно, ако хората на които пише му се връзваха и ставаше някакъв абсурден диалог и те изглеждаха луди за връзване примерно, но случаят не е такъв - повечето просто го отсвирват с 2 реда show more отговор на едностраничния му имейл.

Цялата книга се състои от това - обявата, неговите абсурдни имейли и отговорите на хората най-често от типа "не ме занимавай с глупости".
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Quite funny book to pass the time .

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
First words
The next time you want to post an ad in the online classifieds, think again.
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(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)I would gladly pay $800 to know that somewhere there is a Little League team that has "Barely Legal Super Sluts" on the jersey.

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Fiction and Literature
DDC/MDS
818.602Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican miscellaneous writings in English21st Century
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PN6231 .P36 .L56Language and LiteratureLiterature (General)Literature (General)Collections of general literatureWit and humor
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