Very very very good! This was my first Bentley Little book, and I thoroughly enjoyed it! The pacing was excellent, the main character's story had me hooked from the beginning, despite him not being a very nice person, the sense of foreboding was very well done, and The Ultimate Letter Writer was a very creepy and original design for a monster! I had a great time reading this, and am looking forward to trying more of Little's work!

I loved the original idea of this book and there was so much that the author could've done with it. Instead, I found myself loathing the protagonist and not caring what happened to him.
This story goes full 'Twilight Zone' quickly and stays there for the remainder of the book.

Dear…
Confession time. I’m a Bentley Little fan. Maybe every third book of his I really enjoy. His other books are fun reads but don’t impact me as much as my favorites. “Dispatch” was middle-of-the-road for me.
Our protagonist Jason Hanford is Jason-Average until he discovers the power of the pen. His power of the pen. It starts innocently enough. A school project, exchanging pen-pal letters with Kyoto, a Japanese female letter writer. That correspondence becomes less than innocent.
Jason amps up his letter writing – targeting complaints to various organizations, resulting in comped restaurant meals, free tickets to amusement parks, & other things.
His letter writing progresses. Things happen – good and bad.
Jason gets a job offer as a - WTF – a Letter writer. Seems he’s not the only one with the power of the pen.
My big dislike is the ending seemed rushed. You could argue Jason is the real villain of the novel but then he confronts the Ultimate Letter Writer. And it’s like a grunt soldier confronting Ares, the Greek God of War. You, soldier, are my servant. Do my bidding. Or else.
Weak ending. Little is always different, making the everyday and the mundane, damn weird. Not a favorite novel of his but worth reading.

Puerile junk. How does this guy even get published? Any teenage American slacker could write this. It's amoral and vacuous. The central character kills his father and a harmless girl without remorse and remains unpunished. Not a good role model for our youth today. Guns should not be banned. This book should. It sends a clear message to the Christless generation of young American slobs of today that it's okay to kill people who annoy you. No wonder they voted twice for that evil idiot Obama. Truly this author reflects and glorifies his evil generation.
Though the first half of the book builds interestingly, it suddenly changes, and the second half is pure 'make-it-up-as-you-go' fantasy. During the first half, I thought the author would intelligently develop the theme of contentious letter-writing in the 1980's and 90's and take it into the present internet age where trends and events in politics and culture are now steered by online flaming and social media, the logical extension of the central character's paper and ink 'Letter Writing' of twenty years ago. But the author misses this opportunity, and it seems clear that he ran out of inspiration and interest in his own novel at the halfway point and sought to save it by changing it into an aimless fantasy story instead. I only read this because I live abroad, and books in English here are rare, but be sure I will not be reading any other Bentley Little novel.

Throughout this entire book my opinion of it has been that it's definitely different. Sometimes upsetting, sometimes confusing, but always different than anything else I've ever read. Being the type of person the main character is, I found it challenging to identify with him, and eventually just gave up. Other than that, and some places where I felt the story could have gone in a different, smoother direction, I thought this to be a pretty good read with some interesting concepts.

Dispatch is one of Little's better dark fantasy novels. (It seems weird to have a Little title that's one noun -without- "The" in front of it!) It's a first-person coming-of-age story about a young man who finds that letters he writes have a strange power and influence. The characterization is very strong, and the supernatural slant is innovative, creepy, and interesting. Many of Little's books have a weak ending, but this one kept me guessing and then surprised me. I was impressed by a cute marketing ploy on my paperback edition, a guarantee that the reader will think it's a great read or they can send it back to the publisher for a refund. I kept my copy despite not thinking it was really great, but (for our purposes here, several years later) it's a good read!

I really want to like Bentley Little, but he always gets a little too crazy as the story progresses (in regards to not believable at all). This was probably my favorite of the three Little books I've read, but that's relative.

O Little χρησιμοποιεί καθημερινές καταστάσεις σε ένα ρεαλιστικό υποβάθρο για να δημιουργήσει αλλόκοτες καταστάσεις. Όπως με το DMV, με το The Store κτλ. To κάνει και με το Dispath. Γράφει καλά και δεν νιώθεις ότι χάνεις την ώρα σου (βλ. Ketchum, Keene κλπ). Συμπαθητικό.

Another great read from Little. I didn't like our hero in the beginning, and really for most of the book, he was a bit of an ass. I was happy to see that change, and he began to become more of a human being. In fact, I think near the end he redeemed himself (if he started back down the bad path by the end well, that is another story).

Surprisingly good. It reads like a well written memoir of a Letter Writer until it gets...odd. At turns funny and scary with a protagonist that you can both identify with and are horrified by. This makes me want to search out more by the same author.

Dan turned me on to this: it's the first book I've ever read that actually put a scare in me. For that, it's worth the read.

A really good read..about a guy who likes to write letters. He can make things happen with these letters. He has a gift. It got kinda weird at the end, but was still pretty good.