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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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Wildly Amusing,
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This review is from: Additional Dialogue: Letters of Dalton Trumbo, 1942-1962 (Hardcover)
Trumbo's best legacy. I suspect that the letters to his children may be the finest and funniest ever written by a father. Many of the best letters are addressed to creditors, auto dealers, the phone company - "Dear Burglars . . .", hospitals and contractors. Long out of print - you can still find the tattered dark green paperback for $1.25 at used book sellers.
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By 5 of 6 people found the following review helpful: Wildly Amusing, November 25, 1998 By A Customer Trumbo's best legacy. I suspect that the letters to his children may be the finest and funniest ever written by a father. Many of the best letters are addressed to creditors, auto dealers, the phone company - "Dear Burglars . . .", hospitals and contractors. Long out of print - you can still find the tattered dark green paperback for $1.25 at used book sellers. 1 of 2 people found the following review helpful: AN HONORABLE MAN , December 20, 2004 By G. L. Rowsey (benicia, ca United States) - See all my reviews It's ironic that two of the funniest books published in this country and written by "serious" American authors, were written by communists - Dalton Trumbo's collected letters, Additional Dialogue, and Jessica Mitford's A Fine Old Conflict. But I beg to offer a different opinion from my predecessor-reviewer's regarding the humourous letters in Additional Dialogue. The funniest letter in the book -- and without doubt one of the funniest letters ever written -- was none of those Trumbo wrote to his kids or to his various antagonists, but the one he wrote to his great friend Ring Lardner, Jr., dated October 28, 1945. Since the letters are arranged chronologicically, it's not hard to find. The stereotypical American communist has never had a sense of humor. However, even the most ardent American haters of communists, if literate, would grant that some of ours, and very notably Mr. Trumbo and Ms. Mitford, were exceptions to this rule. Trumbo's humor was particularly admirable when rage by the witch-hunt's victims seemed to be an irresistible reaction. In the time of the toad, as Trumbo famously called it, for an American communist to really laugh in his or her own victimization scarcely seemed possible. But of course under the circumstances, it was the only revenge possible. In Additional Dialog's letters, Trumbo the magnificient screenplay writer (Roman Holiday, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, Lonely Are the Brave, Spartacus), whom the witch-hunters both jailed and blacklisted, treated the world to his laughter. As for the book's likely being Trumbo's "best legacy," as stated in the previous review? My bet's on Johnny Got His Gun.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: Additional Dialogue: Letters of Dalton Trumbo, 1942-1962 (Hardcover)
Outstanding. If I had Trumbo's words to describe his book of letters, it would sell itself. A brilliant interesting man who writes pros even to the phone company. Find this book, spend the money. It is a lesson in what's becoming a lost art, letter writing. Enter into Trumbo's mind and discover true wit, logic and what you've always want to tell you son about masterbation. Not one moment of wasted time with this read.
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