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Dear Andy Kaufman, I Hate Your Guts!

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Being an Andy fan and having read "Lost In The Fun House" and "AK: Revealed" I'm just glad we have even a glimpse at the kinds of challenge letters Andy was receiving. This is a great and rare treat.

The book is very high quality, I just wish maybe they could have sacrificed quality for a few extra letters as it is a very quick read. Mostly a coffee table book. But it is a very good cross-section of folks reacting to Andy's inflammatory statements and challenges to wrestle women. There were actually quite a few very clever letters mixed in with the misspelled rantings and ravings.

If you are an Andy Kaufman fan pick this up, it completes the trilogy of essential Andy reading, along with the other two books mentioned above.

This book reprints letters and photographs received by Andy Kaufman in response to his challenge to pay $1,000 to a woman who could beat him in a wrestling match. The letters and pictures are very well reproduced on high quality paper. The letters are very interesting to read. Most of the women seem to get the joke, but sometimes it's hard to tell. Very entertaining book, if you are an Andy Kaufman fan.

This book had me laughing each time I turned the page. It is well designed and filled with scans of original letters and photos. To say Andy Kaufman was an intriguing character is an understatement, and this book is just a small sample of the massive response and influence he generated in his life and beyond. This book OWNS! Get it!

This book is hilarious and well worth the bucks for any Andy fan or Andy hater! For me, these 30 year old letters, each accompanied by photos of the potential challengers, are a cool time capsule footnote to one of the great performing artists of all time. It's interesting to imagine that real people sat down to write these letters and then to wonder what happened to them after that moment in time. I must say it's not always easy (but still fun) to figure out who's angry, who's nuts, who's enamored, who's just "playing along" for a chance to be on Saturday Night Live, or any combination of these motivations. A very creative, entertaining, and highly unusual book for sure. I had heard about this project a number of years ago from Ms. Margulies when I was still the caretaker of an Andy tribute website ([...]), and I am delighted that she was able to get this published. Well worth the wait, and a big thanks to all involved.

The best letters Andy received were the ones from people under the age of 12.

This book had all the makings for a well written piece of Andy Kaufman archival history. I'm not sure if the author or the editor is to blame for what turned out to be a big dissappointment. My advice to the Andy Kaufman fans out there: Save your money for Bob Zmuda's "Andy Kaufman Revealed-Best friend tells all."