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- ISBN
- 9780307382641
- Book Title
- Other People's Love Letters : 150 Letters You Were Never Meant to See
- Item Length
- 8.5 in
- Publisher
- Potter/Ten SPEED/Harmony/Rodale
- Publication Year
- 2007
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Genre
- Self-Help, Literary Collections, Social Science, Humor
- Topic
- Topic / Men, Women & Relationships, Letters, Popular Culture, Motivational & Inspirational
- Item Width
- 7 in
- Item Weight
- 22.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 192 Pages
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Fevered notes scribbled on napkins after first dates. Titillating text messages. It's-not-you-it's-me relationship-enders. In Other People's Love Letters , Bill Shapiro has searched America's attics, closets, and cigar boxes and found actual letters-unflinchingly honest missives full of lust, provocation, guilt, and vulnerability-written only for a lover's eyes. Modern love, of course, is not all bliss, and in these pages you'll find the full range of a relationship, with its whispered promises as well as its heartache. But what at first appears to be a deliciously voyeuristic peek into other people's most passionate moments, will ultimately reawaken your own desires and tenderness...because when you read these letters, you'll find the heart you're looking into is actually your own. - "i think UR great. wanna have wine & Tequila again sometime?" - "I can't believe you're real, and I think about you constantly in some way or the other all day. I haven't given the finger to anyone driving since I met you." - "With you I learned how to fight cleaner, how to talk things out better, and how to make a strong loving family out of nothing. These are priceless gifts that I will carry with me the rest of my life. One more thing you did for me: you left, and I had to get through it." - "P.S. I look forward to your letters too much to call. Also, where do you stand on chains?"
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Publisher
Potter/Ten SPEED/Harmony/Rodale
ISBN-10
0307382648
ISBN-13
9780307382641
eBay Product ID (ePID)
59068368
Product Key Features
Book Title
Other People's Love Letters : 150 Letters You Were Never Meant to See
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Topic / Men, Women & Relationships, Letters, Popular Culture, Motivational & Inspirational
Publication Year
2007
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Self-Help, Literary Collections, Social Science, Humor
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Height
1 in
Item Width
7 in
Item Weight
22.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
LeafCats
378
Lc Classification Number
Hq801.3.S53 2007
Reviews
"If I have learned only one thing from a) personal experience and b) Vivian Cash's fascinating memoir,I Walked the Line, it is this: No human can compose a love letter without seeming slightly insane. Love letters are like suicide notes -- if someone is in the emotional position to consider writing one, they're generally in the worst psychological position to make any cogent sense. That disconnect is what makesOther People's Love Letters: 150 Letters You Were Never Meant to See a painfully entertaining twelve-minute read. Edited by formerLifemagazine editor Bill Shapiro (and presented like Davy Rothbart's Found series), the book delivers exactly what it purports: random personal letters from people who are either wildly ecstatic or profoundly depressed over the condition of their romantic existence. (One of my favorite entries is from a person who just printed the word liar 183 consecutive times.) Judging from the contents of these notes, we appear to live in a society that is sex crazed and optimistic yet consumed with deep regret. This is probably true. Making matters all the more interesting is Shapiro's epilogue -- he contacts several of the contributors and finds out how the relationship worked out, postletter." -Esquire, Chuck Klosterman "Bill Shapiro (Time Inc.'s development editor) collects extremely private correspondence, which he has amassed inOther People's Love Letters. The notes, e-mails, telegrams, and letters appear as copies of the originals, in all their faded, tearstained glory. The earliest examples come off as gorgeous and romantic, whether they're pages of elegant script or a few words scrawled on a cocktail napkin. E-mail seems to have had a decidedly negative effect on the art, if ''Am having terribly naughty thoughts again today, and I was wondering if you might want to hear about them'' is any indication. After compulsively flipping through to the last page, I have just one question: How did Shapiro get people to part with these?" -Entertainment Weekly "From the moment Bill Shapiro stumbled upon an old love letter that wasn't his (it was an ode to his then girlfriend from some earlier man), he was hooked. His new book,Other People's Love Letters, reprints 150 of the many hundreds he's collected over the years. Strictly speaking, they're not all declarations of love. Some are Dear Johns; others are postmortems of failed relationships. And not all of them are letters, in the stationary-and-envelope sense. They're scrawled across postcards, crammed onto Post-its, scribbled on cocktail napkins and matchbooks. Some are old (Peter J. Dougherty, chief of police, to 'dearest Lizzie,' dated December 22, 1911); some are new (e-mails, text messages, more e-mails). Should going through them strike you as voyeuristic, beware. They're addictive." -O Magazine, "If I have learned only one thing from a) personal experience and b) Vivian Cash's fascinating memoir, I Walked the Line , it is this: No human can compose a love letter without seeming slightly insane. Love letters are like suicide notes -- if someone is in the emotional position to consider writing one, they're generally in the worst psychological position to make any cogent sense. That disconnect is what makes Other People's Love Letters: 150 Letters You Were Never Meant to See a painfully entertaining twelve-minute read. Edited by former Life magazine editor Bill Shapiro (and presented like Davy Rothbart's Found series), the book delivers exactly what it purports: random personal letters from people who are either wildly ecstatic or profoundly depressed over the condition of their romantic existence. (One of my favorite entries is from a person who just printed the word liar 183 consecutive times.) Judging from the contents of these notes, we appear to live in a society that is sex crazed and optimistic yet consumed with deep regret. This is probably true. Making matters all the more interesting is Shapiro's epilogue -- he contacts several of the contributors and finds out how the relationship worked out, postletter." -Esquire, Chuck Klosterman "Bill Shapiro (Time Inc.'s development editor) collects extremely private correspondence, which he has amassed in Other People's Love Letters . The notes, e-mails, telegrams, and letters appear as copies of the originals, in all their faded, tearstained glory. The earliest examples come off as gorgeous and romantic, whether they're pages of elegant script or a few words scrawled on a cocktail napkin. E-mail seems to have had a decidedly negative effect on the art, if ''Am having terribly naughty thoughts again today, and I was wondering if you might want to hear about them'' is any indication. After compulsively flipping through to the last page, I have just one question: How did Shapiro get people to part with these?" -Entertainment Weekly "From the moment Bill Shapiro stumbled upon an old love letter that wasn't his (it was an ode to his then girlfriend from some earlier man), he was hooked. His new book, Other People's Love Letters , reprints 150 of the many hundreds he's collected over the years. Strictly speaking, they're not all declarations of love. Some are Dear Johns; others are postmortems of failed relationships. And not all of them are letters, in the stationary-and-envelope sense. They're scrawled across postcards, crammed onto Post-its, scribbled on cocktail napkins and matchbooks. Some are old (Peter J. Dougherty, chief of police, to 'dearest Lizzie,' dated December 22, 1911); some are new (e-mails, text messages, more e-mails). Should going through them strike you as voyeuristic, beware. They're addictive." -O Magazine
Copyright Date
2007
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2007-006764
Dewey Decimal
392.6
Dewey Edition
22
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