Lennon's letters offer intimate insight  The cover of The John
Lennon Letters.Photo / Supplied The cover of The John Lennon
Letters.Photo / Supplied  One of the main reasons Facebook,
Twitter and other voyeuristic social networking tools are
popular is pretty obvious - we like to spy on other people.
I've always been a fan of reading letters of long-gone
celebrities. Many famous writers were also compulsive note-
writers. There have been volumes of letters produced by Ernest
Hemingway, J.R.R. Tolkien, Virginia Woolf, Abraham Lincoln,
amongst others.  It might be a dying art form, but a handsome
new book shows the fleeting beauty tossed-off notes and messages
can have.  The John Lennon Letters, compiled by Beatles
biographer Hunter S. Davies, features dozens of notes written by
Lennon in his lifetime and is a cornucopia for both
Beatlemaniacs and letter-spies.  "Lennon lived before computers
and email and texts and his first reaction was to write things
down," Davies writes.  "He saw them as a little performan