Talk to the Hand
Talk To the Hand: the Utter Bloody Rudeness of Everyday Life (Or Six Good Reasons To Stay Home And Bolt the Door)
Talk To the Hand: the Utter Bloody Rudeness of Everyday Life (Or Six Good Reasons To Stay Home And Bolt the Door)
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781861979797 (1861979797)
Publish date: October 31st 2006
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Humor,
Writing,
Essays,
Funny,
Comedy,
Reference,
Humanities,
Language,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Culture,
Sociology
Lynne Truss is fabulous. This book, however, is not. Basically, it lacks direction. A collection of essays on the six things society has embraced which will make you want to remain at home with the door barred, it takes its brief a little too intelligently, including quotes from anthropoligical te...
Very funny look at rudeness in modern society, particularly in the UK.
The attempts at humor are a little too forced; the conclusion is achieved quickly with not much argument. Not as good as Eats Shoots and Leaves.
I agreed. And it made me sad. And I don't know how to solve it and neither does Lynne Truss.But it was Effing wonderful to be so Effing validated!
A great many amusing anecdotes and some very good thoughts, but jumbled and ill-organized. She started a lot of thoughts and pulls out a lot of theories, but never conclusively decides to follow any of them to any logical end. She muses on manners and civility and ethics and morality and social more...
12 years ago
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