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Pattersons The Book of Letters I Didnt Know Where to Send is a collection of wait for it letters, written by awardwinning standup comedian you guessed it Steve Patterson.


The host of CBC Radios The Debaters since, Steve Patterson has become a household name, with more than,listeners tuning in each week.
He has performed at several of the Just for Laughs prestigious televised galas, including one hosted by Steve Martin, Considered to be the highlight of the show by the audience and critics alike, Pattersons performance prompted the legendary Martin to quip, “If Id known he was going to be THAT good, I would have cancelled him.
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Pattersons letters, long a staple of his standup comedy routine, address a number of recipients, from real people, to groups, to inanimate objects and concepts.
He airs grievances, offers support or creates just plain confusion in unplainly humorous prose,

From the political to the personal, from the philosophical to the mundane, no subject or target is off limits, Pattersons letters may not change the world, but frankly, its too early to tell, In these letters, he pleads, begs, cajoles, grovels, and always makes a compelling argument, He would like men to stop wearing Spandex bike shorts, He would like airlines to stop selling seats they dont have, He would like gluten to explain itself, He would like his nineyearold self to know everything will be all right, . . I listened to Steve Patterson read one of these letters "Dear The Bay" at a comedy event a few months ago, and his delivery must have been a big part of the reason I found it so funny at the time because the book as a whole was just okay.
There were several good oneliners and I liked the tone, but overall there wasn't much to it, Really.stars. However, there were some laughoutloud letters Dear quotation marks in advertising, Dear baseball, Dear Wolf Blitzer, Dear PGA players and some sweetly poignant letters as well.
This is a terrific book to have around when you have a few moments to read but can't embrace a whole chapter at one sitting.
Steve Patterson is very funny and this book is charming, I know that authors would hate to have their hard work as "cute, " But it totally was.

A fun, light, fast read that is great for those who commute to work, unless you actual are driving, Keep your eyes on the road buddy!


While this is not a book to sit down and read covertocover, it is fun to pick up for a few minutes at a time for a chuckle.
Dear Mr Patterson,

Thanks so much for publishing your collection of letters you didn't know where to send, I have been a fan of your stand up for a while now, and any time I can, I tune into the Debaters, and constantly harass other people to do so as well.


Your letters are funny but also at times, right on the mark, You get down to business, and are not afraid to have an unpopular opinion on popular issues, Some of your letters are a bit out there, how impressive you managed to write to several letters of the alphabet and have a "letters worth" of things to say to them! and some of them are more touching and sweet than funny.


I also think that it is proof that you don't need to be the most academic with countless accolades to your name in order to have a worthy opinion on current events or issues.
Not to say I don't think you're intelligent, . .

Yours truly,
Samantha I liked this book because as a Canadian, I found it totally relatable,

Who among us hasnt walked into The Bay with the plucky determination of anth century explorer in search of the northwest passage, only to be met with the stores vast tundralike interior its emptiness punctuated only by scantily dressed mannequins in Olympic toques and a high school student who doesnt know where the washrooms are.
Weve all been there.

The book is a fun, warm hearted read, Fans of CBCs The Debaters quirky humour will love it,
I hate to give any book such a low rating, so should explain this one, His letters are very funny, light and fun to read, Except there are far too many of them, As in, if this book had been/as long I could have given it a solidand maybe even astar, Sadly I got to a point where it was just, oh another letter to a "letter" of the alphabet,

I enjoy him on the radio, and I no doubt would really enjoy a chance to see him live, But his book just too much of a good thing, making it mediocre, A few weeks ago I attended The Debaters here in Edmonton, Steve Patterson was so funny! He read a couple of the letters from his book p I think the one to The Bay is particularly hilarious.


Anyway, I was able to check the book out of the library, I had to limit myself to reading justletter per evening before bed so that I could make the book last as long as possible.


I highly recommend that you read this book, I recommend reading it in bits and pieces over a stretch, The collection is amusing but the premise can lose it's appeal if you read several letters in one sitting, Some of the letters are hilarious, others are kinda meh, I enjoy Patterson in his stand up routine and if you read these letters in his voice, some of them will have you smiling, . . a nice diversion from my regular reading choices, sitelink bookcrossing. com/journal/ As a fan of The Debaters I started out quite enjoying Steve Patterson's collection of comedic letters to recipients from "Jesus" to "lawyers" to "the letter X.
" Like the radio show, the The Book of Letters I Didnt Know Where to Send's humour includes quite a bit of wordplay, is slightly to the left of centre, and is relatable to the type of Canadian who falls into the CBC's core audience.
I had two issues though, First is that it felt really long, with overletters and only a few of them really hilarious, I would've preferred he write more where a theme was really working and edited himself more where the jokes were just soso e, g. the poorlyresearched letter to Sir John A, Macdonald, which actually gives him a shoutout for naming Canada after an Indigenous word, when he was a pretty instrumental figure in our genocidal policies towards Indigenous people.


Second, there were more cringeworthy moments in the book, which became hard to laugh off, including fat jokes, cliché gender stereotypes, and a particularly essentialist/transexclusionary letter about X and Y chromosomes.
I don't think any of this was intentional but on the gender stereotypes Patterson definitely knows better, In such a long collection, those letters could've easily been missed to the benefit of the whole, I gave up on this book about halfway through, Sure, the letters are relatable as a Canadian, but rarely actually funny, I just got bored. A quick and amusing read, Thanks to goodreads and the publisher for this ARC,

I quite enjoyed this book and I'm sure any Canadian would find at least some of the

letters funny, You definitely have to be Canadian to understand the humour in many of the them,

I'll be passing this on to myyear old son as I know he'll get a kick out of it, CBC's The Next Chapter had a great interview with the auhor, and I have enjoyed his humour on The Debaters, So I opened this book with great anticipation, And shortly aftee closed it with disappointment, Not very funny IMHO and I didn't like the style of a series of short letters, I laughed at this the first time, So in a crazy week I chose to listen to it again, LOVED IT! When I could remind myself to read a certain letter in the "Steve Patterson debaters deadpan", the text was a bit funnier and I caught more of the understated jokes.
However, as a "read a few letters here and there" book, it mostly seemed to me to fall flat, Some funny parts in most letters, but this seems like a case where one every now and then could be pretty humourous, but a solid dose in a few sittings just felt like work.
The host of CBC Radios The Debaters since, Steve Patterson has become a household name, with than,listeners tuning in each week, He has performed at several of the Just for Laughs prestigious televised galas, including one hosted by Steve Martin, Considered to be the highlight of the show by the audience and critics alike, Pattersons performance prompted the legendary Martin to quip, “If Id known he was going to be THAT good, I would have cancelled him.
”In addition to his stand up comedy and radio work, Patterson has written for several publications, including the Globe and Mail, Irish Independent, London Free Press, Toronto Star, and Canadian Living.
The Book of Letters I Didnt Know Where to Send is his first book, .