- Hardcover: 448 pages
- Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd; First Edition edition (5 Oct 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0340920858
- ISBN-13: 978-0340920855
- Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 13.7 x 4.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 314,077 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"* 'Wise, witty and fabulously entertaining' - Tony Parsons on iPOD, THEREFORE I AM"
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A witty, stylish and indispensable guide to being a modern man. It is tough being a man in the twenty-first century. First there are the big dilemmas, like how to get a pay rise and how to suck up to your boss. Then there are the minor irritations: how do you beat jet-lag, and how do you stop your trousers sliding off their hangers? And finally there are all those things you ought to know, but don't: how to jump-start a car, how to buy lingerie, how to stop smoking, how to tie a Windsor Knot, how to behave at a lap-dancing club ...the list is endless. Fear not. In "Mr Jones Rules", the highly respected editor of GQ magazine draws on his wealth of experience to give the final answer to these questions and more. It will be the must-have present for every husband, boyfriend and son this Christmas.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I think this book should cost about £75 to discourage the riff raff, e.g. me, from buying it because being on average earnings I found some of the advice irrelevant - for example I don't think I'll be buying a Rolex (£3000+?) any time soon!
However I would be missing the point if I critised it for this because the whole premise of the book is that it is a guide for would-be gentlemen.
Despite lacking the aspiration to attain such heights or move in those rarified social circles (I might suffer the misfortune of bumping into Jeremy Clarkson or Simon Cowell - endorsees of the book), I enjoyed reading it and found it full of advice useful even to a pleb like me - it's virtually an encyclopaedia.
However I would be missing the point if I critised it for this because the whole premise of the book is that it is a guide for would-be gentlemen.
Despite lacking the aspiration to attain such heights or move in those rarified social circles (I might suffer the misfortune of bumping into Jeremy Clarkson or Simon Cowell - endorsees of the book), I enjoyed reading it and found it full of advice useful even to a pleb like me - it's virtually an encyclopaedia.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is a very easy to read book, picking various rules out to read by random or just going through all of them in order. The author, even while writing in a self deprecating manner enjoys talking about himself and there are quite a few funny anecdotes and stories. None of the articles on the rules are too long and have some very good advice which is most of the time easy to put into action.
I'd say that this book is a touch too knowing and judgemental at times but when you come across something you don't like or disagree with you just ignore it. You're paying for generally sound advice overall.
I'd say that this book is a touch too knowing and judgemental at times but when you come across something you don't like or disagree with you just ignore it. You're paying for generally sound advice overall.
15 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
My girlfriend got me this for christmas, and I have been unable to put it down. Not in a good way. You've seen car-crash TV, well this is a "car crash book"....
On the surface, this must have seemed an ideal "stocking-filler" gift. But she should not have judged a book by its cover (actually, you could have judged this book by its cover, as it suffers from endorsements from the likes of Jermey Clarkson, Simon Cowell and Jimmy Carr - with such a charmless bunch of friends as this lot, I severely doubt Jones' enemies need to bother). And then you open it...
To say that Jones is self-satisfied would be understatement of the decade. This man loves himself, and assumes that we will all be in just as much awe of him as he is. He name drops, talks about the fancy restaraunts he eats at, the lables he wears. All I wanted to know was how to fix my girlfriends car...
So, what of the advice? Well, some of it is useful (a good section on Poker and speech giving, for example), some of it is "jokey" (ha ha) and a lot of it is just plain weird. However, it is always delivered in a scarily authorative manner. "DON'T let the tailor intimidate you", "ALWAYS use an unperfumed deoderant" and "ONLY send a thank-you text to someone you'd text a joke to" are some of the more surreal demands made of the modern man.
And who is the modern man that is going to read this? Well it won't be read by anyone with enough money to do half of the things suggested in the book, for a start. Dylan Jones is editor of GQ, "the most suuccessful up-market mens magazine in Britain". What they really mean by "up-market" is "aspirational", as in most of the readership aspire to be more up-market than they ever will be. Aimed at a slightly older age group than Loaded or FHM, this magazine is marketed towards people who aspire to be city-sharks, successful business men and middle-aged celebraties. You can imagine some fat-balding mid-thirties middle-management loser buying this stuff and being half convinced that he really must follow all of Dylans instructions if he wants that shot at making it big. The rest of us, we'll just sit back and laugh.
One has to wonder about the psychological state of Dylan Jones when he sat down to write this. He seems happy to come across as a terribly nasty person. His sections on business and money ("how to fire someone" "how to win an argument" "how to steer a meeting") show someone who is desperate for the world to know how little he cares about his fellow man, how much he must get his own way, how he considers all other humans to be his "compertitors", you'd think that he was revelling in his misanthropy. Dylan, THESE ARE NOT NICE CHARECTERISTICS!!!
Anyway, the book is well written and occasionally amusing, but you'd kind of expect that from the editor of a nationally distributed magazine. Read it if you like watching Jeremy Kyle because he annoys you.
On the surface, this must have seemed an ideal "stocking-filler" gift. But she should not have judged a book by its cover (actually, you could have judged this book by its cover, as it suffers from endorsements from the likes of Jermey Clarkson, Simon Cowell and Jimmy Carr - with such a charmless bunch of friends as this lot, I severely doubt Jones' enemies need to bother). And then you open it...
To say that Jones is self-satisfied would be understatement of the decade. This man loves himself, and assumes that we will all be in just as much awe of him as he is. He name drops, talks about the fancy restaraunts he eats at, the lables he wears. All I wanted to know was how to fix my girlfriends car...
So, what of the advice? Well, some of it is useful (a good section on Poker and speech giving, for example), some of it is "jokey" (ha ha) and a lot of it is just plain weird. However, it is always delivered in a scarily authorative manner. "DON'T let the tailor intimidate you", "ALWAYS use an unperfumed deoderant" and "ONLY send a thank-you text to someone you'd text a joke to" are some of the more surreal demands made of the modern man.
And who is the modern man that is going to read this? Well it won't be read by anyone with enough money to do half of the things suggested in the book, for a start. Dylan Jones is editor of GQ, "the most suuccessful up-market mens magazine in Britain". What they really mean by "up-market" is "aspirational", as in most of the readership aspire to be more up-market than they ever will be. Aimed at a slightly older age group than Loaded or FHM, this magazine is marketed towards people who aspire to be city-sharks, successful business men and middle-aged celebraties. You can imagine some fat-balding mid-thirties middle-management loser buying this stuff and being half convinced that he really must follow all of Dylans instructions if he wants that shot at making it big. The rest of us, we'll just sit back and laugh.
One has to wonder about the psychological state of Dylan Jones when he sat down to write this. He seems happy to come across as a terribly nasty person. His sections on business and money ("how to fire someone" "how to win an argument" "how to steer a meeting") show someone who is desperate for the world to know how little he cares about his fellow man, how much he must get his own way, how he considers all other humans to be his "compertitors", you'd think that he was revelling in his misanthropy. Dylan, THESE ARE NOT NICE CHARECTERISTICS!!!
Anyway, the book is well written and occasionally amusing, but you'd kind of expect that from the editor of a nationally distributed magazine. Read it if you like watching Jeremy Kyle because he annoys you.
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I had the misfortune of receiving this book as a gift. Unfortunately, I do not read Conde Nast nor do I aspire to live beyond my means with the use of a credit card. Read more
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I'm a great believer in men being groomed into being gentlemen. There is a difference. However, this book won't do that. Read more
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From a girls point of view
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Published on 15 Oct 2006 by The Critic
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