Other People's Love Letters: 150 Letters You Were Never Meant to See

Product Description:
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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Customer Reviews

Rating: - Interesting and Fun.
I must say that it really is fun to read other people's mail. This collection of letters is most enjoyable to read when you have that extra few minutes to just chill and enter another world. There is something for everyone; passion, atrocious grammar, the souls delight and the depths of misery. And It is all written by people who are not natural writers and must struggle for almost every word. This is what grabs you, everyone wants be loved.
Rating: - Cool Book
This is a really cool book of letters. It's called Love Letters, but it includes letters that exude all of the emotions that love can bring out of us: jealousy, hatred, passion, envy, desperation. It's a great study of human emotions in love. A fun book of crazy letters.
Rating: - He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not
This book of love letters shows the true beauty in love and the pain it can also carry. I could read these over and over again.
Rating: - Other People's Love Letters: 150 Letters You Were Never Meant to See
This is a great book, the only problem I'v been having is some of the letters are hard to read being that they ate not typed but photo copied had written letters, other than that I love the book.
Rating: - Intimate Correspondence
In "Other People's Love Letters" Bill Shapiro presents 150 letters that are pretty interesting to read. He requested letters from everyone he knew and they in turn did the same. Some of the letters are about divorce and a few are especially honest about breaking up. However most of the letters seem pretty mild and could be read by anyone without offence. Every letter in this collection was printed with permission from its writer or the closest living relative. One typed letter was from 1939 and didn't ... Read More