by Lynne Truss
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...
Hilarious skewering of today's rudeness epidemic. Funny, in England they think we're still polite in the US!
Rudeness in our world. The subtitle says it all. Reading this book makes you feel it is somehow a nicer world.
The problem with modern life is that it brings us into brief contact with so many other people. In any given day, some stranger will do something that really chaps every one of us. The negative stands out of the day, affecting our moods and memories more than the positive. I wonder just how many ser...
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