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Everybody Says Hello [Paperback]

Michael Kun
4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)

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Book Description

April 16, 2012
Sid Straw, the author of the correspondence that forms Everybody Says Hello, isn t Everyman, but he is someone everyone knows. He tries just a little too hard, says just a little too much, and that extra effort and those extra words are often his undoing. If only Sid could get out of his own way, his life would be wonderful. While Sid Straw may frustrate you at times, you ll end up rooting for him the same way you root for your own equally imperfect friends.

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About the Author

Michael Kun is the critically acclaimed author of The Locklear Letters (a BookSense #1 selection) and You Poor Monster (a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, a Borders Original Voices selection, and Baltimore magazine s selection as the best novel of 2006), among other works of fiction and non-fiction. His work has appeared in a wide variety of publications for more than two decades. In addition to practicing law, he currently writes about the National Football League for The Washington Post website. He, his wife Amy and their daughter Paige live in Los Angeles California.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 308 pages
  • Publisher: Livingston Pr (April 16, 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1604890878
  • ISBN-13: 978-1604890877
  • Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #360,569 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Michael Kun was born on November 28, 1962. He is the son of Richard and Beatrice Kun. He is a graduate of The Johns Hopkins University, as well as the School of Law of the University of Virginia.

Michael sold his first novel, A Thousand Benjamins, while he was in law school. The novel was published in 1990. After many rumors of his death, which can be read right here on amazon.com, Kun returned with The Locklear Letters in 2003.

Since then, Kun has published three more novels -- My Wife and My Dead Wife, You Poor Monster, and Everybody Says Hello. He has also published the short story collection Corrections to My Memoirs, and has co-authored The Baseball Uncyclopedia and The Football Uncyclopedia. His work also appears in The X-Mas Men.

Michael has never had a cavity.

He also has no tattoos or piercings.

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I've read all of Kun's books and they are all very funny, so it's tough to pick the funniest one. Soulless lawyer  |  5 reviewers made a similar statement
Examines what people really mean when they say "Everybody Says Hello"! Richard Rabicoff  |  3 reviewers made a similar statement
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
There are only three words to describe this uproarious, hilarious, and endearing novel: uproarious, hilarious, and endearing.

There are 3 types of people who should read Everybody Says Hello:

If you are a Michael Kun fan (and who isn't?), Everybody Says Hello will fan the flames of your fandom.
If you enjoyed The Locklear Letters (and who didn't?), you will adore Everybody Says Hello.
If you love Jewish humor written by gentiles (and who doesn't?), you will kvel as if the author were your youngest child.

Everybody Says Hello is such a fabulous book that it reduces even the most pompous critics to spewers of blurbs. For example:

The funniest letters since St. Paul wrote to the Thessalonians!
Reads so fast you will finish it in one sitting . . . even if you are not constipated!
Delivers at least two laughs per page, even on those pages with only one word!
Epitomizes the epistolary novel: All pistols appearing in the first chapter are fired in the last chapter!
Best use of the color yellow (Yellow Pages, Yellow Cake, yellow narrator) since Alice Walker's The Color Yellow.
Examines what people really mean when they say "Everybody Says Hello"!
Provides the most incisive survey of American hotels and motels since Lolita!
Read it before Denise Richards sues the author for defamation of character!
Read it before the author counter-sues Denise Richards for defamation of character!
(Spoiler alert) The book not only has a happy ending, it ends happily!

Michael Kun, you are the Big Ka-Kun-a!
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Another strong entry April 17, 2012
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
Michael Kun has done it again. All the hallmarks of the Kun Style are here--the deft use of irony, the laugh out loud humor with the unexpected turns into pathos, the inventive technique.

I'm amazed at how he can weave a whole complicated story in this epistolary style, especially when told exclusively form one perspective, that of the inimitable Sid Straw. The reader is left to fill in blanks as he complains about stationary, commits outrageous faux pas about coworkers, befriends transvestites and frets over vandalizing yellow pages. Kun gives just enough information for us to imagine the whole messy world Sid is muddling through, and never lapses into staged or situational writing.

Through all we're told a moving story of a rather clueless but decent guy looking to find his share of happiness in an often indifferent or sometimes hostile world. You'll be pulling for Sid the whole way!
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5.0 out of 5 stars A very fun and funny book April 13, 2012
Format:Paperback
"Everybody Says Hello" is a page-turner of a book...not just because some of the pages have a single word on them. As Kun unveils the story of Sid Straw's relocation from Baltimore to LA, things unfold at such a fast pace, and in such an unpredictable way, that you can't stop reading. Sid is almost someone you dont like, yet the way that he is portrayed, you have no choice but to root for him to succeed, no matter what life, or stationery challenges he faces. It has been a while since Sid was introduced to the world in "The Locklear Letters" and I am glad to have learned what he has been up to, and that his exploits are even more entertaining than the last go round. I can only hope that there will be more to come!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Kun Has Been Eating His Wheaties!
An epistolary "catching up" with Sid Straw, Kun's character from similarly-penned The Locklear Letters. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Henry Heth
4.0 out of 5 stars You Just Can't Dislike Sid Straw
Michael Kun's Everybody Says Hello is a wonderful, funny epistolary (it means "consisting of letters," I looked it up a minute ago) novel. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Lilian @ A Novel Toybox
5.0 out of 5 stars Everybody Says KUN!
Sid Straw isn't just anyone. Everybody Says Hello is now the second book that he's been featured in, the first of which was The Locklear Letters, a novel comprised of letters to... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Sean P. Ferguson
5.0 out of 5 stars Can't get enough of Sid Straw!
This book is hilarious! Seriously! This is an epistolary novel, written through one-sided correspondences by Sid Straw through his many misadventures as he relocates to California... Read more
Published 11 months ago by Shantria W
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic!
Wow! This book was very good. I look forward to the letters in other books, and since book was all letters I loved it! Ive never read anything like it. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Jen
5.0 out of 5 stars Laugh Out Loud Funny!
Michael Kun's newest book is a great summer read. It is fast, funny and fully engaging. After buying a couple of his other works, The Football Un-cyclopedia and The Baseball... Read more
Published 11 months ago by Amy S
5.0 out of 5 stars Summer Beach Reading at its Finest
Its summertime and you want to bring a fun book to the beach, to the pool, or on that plane trip in which you are sandwiched between strangers. Read more
Published 11 months ago by TRC
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!
"Everybody Says Hello", the followup to "The Locklear Letters", is fast-paced and funny on literally every page. Read more
Published 11 months ago by M. Curran
5.0 out of 5 stars Mike Kun does it again!
I don't eat Wheaties but I love clueless Sid Straw. A tour de force of hotel TV pay per view. Sid Straw reminds me of the hapless heroes of the old-time movies. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Big D
5.0 out of 5 stars A Must Read!
Loved this book! I was intrigued from the beginning by Sid Straw, an average Joe with a penchant for correspondence. Read more
Published 12 months ago by avidreader
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