- Paperback: 208 pages
- Publisher: Paragon; Large print ed edition (2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1405612770
- ISBN-13: 978-1405612777
- Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (52 customer reviews)
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197 of 203 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Being a fan of Lynne Truss's writing I was looking forward to reading what she had to say on modern manners, and I haven't been disappointed. Although I enjoyed Eats, Shoots and Leaves I have to confess that the issue of punctuation is not one that is close to my heart, whereas who hasn't wanted to punch the pillock having a noisy conversation on their mobile on the train, or the person who blithley ignores us as we hold open a door for them. However this book is not merely a rant, although the parts that are verging on it are probably the funniest, rather it is an attempt to understand why people today appear to be so ill-mannered. Truss explores whether it is merely perception, or if modern manners have changed then what has precipitated it and why do we feel so aggreived by it. This is something that anyone can relate to, and wrapped up in the same great writing that made Eats, Shoots and Leaves the number one read last Christmas this book will be enjoyed enormously by anyone who reads it. And you never know, it just might start the modern manners revolution!
110 of 119 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Truss attacks rudeness and boorishness after her campaign on how we use punctuation today. If you liked her last book, you’ll probably like this. However, if you didn’t like her last one, I’m not sure this would convert you.
Truss is amusing and her writing is very readable. She takes on computer lingo, irresponsible mobile use, eating in public (some thing my father abhorred) and many other such social grievances.
A book to dip into and at times sympathise with. I’m sure it will make a good Christmas present, but let’s not take it too seriously else we would be forever grumpy!
As Oscar Wilde wrote in Lady Windermere's Fan
'Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.'
83 of 92 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
If you liked Eats Shoots and Leaves - and so many of us did - then you'll love this funny and pertinent appraisal of an aspect of modern life that so badly needed the Truss Treatment. There are so many things to like here. It is both an earnest and a humourous book that deals with the alienation and atomisation of the individual in an ever more crowded society that cares less and less about 'other people'. She manages to deal with the subject that more heavy-handed authors would fall foul of: she is able to negotiate the politics of the debate over rudeness without being drawn into facile class commentary or supericial assumptions about the impertinence or mannerlessness of the young. Most importantly, she achieves all this whilst raising a smile and the odd laugh, too. Great fun and thought provoking to boot.
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A book about how people aren't as nice as they used to be, peppered with uninteresting anecdotes. The author states how she got annoyed seeing someone wearing a T-shirt with "Bored... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Johns
Exactly What It Says It Is
I was prompted to write this review largely because of the surprisingly negative reaction from people who don't seem to have grasped what the book is trying to do or be. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Tiro
Funny but depressing
This book was quite entertaining, Lynne Truss has a lovely style which is very funny and I really connect with. Read more
Published on 7 Nov 2009 by Sulkyblue
Waste of time
Huge disappointment, even thought twice about donating it to the charity shop for fear of somebody else losing money on this rubbish.
Published on 29 Feb 2008 by I. S. Thompson
Trash
This is utter trash, I can't really be bothered to write a full review becuase it doesn't deserve it. Read more
Published on 1 Sep 2007 by J. Bridge
The wrong title
This book should be re-titled 'An old woman's diatribe on (British) manners', because that's basically what it is. Read more
Published on 7 Aug 2007 by Andrew W
So insightful!!!
Let us face it, we have all thought, at some point or other, that there is something alarmingly wrong with today's society! Read more
Published on 21 Mar 2007 by Nadia Al Hazmi
And your point is...?
Disappointing read (or rant). It was very repetitive with no conclusion. The only interesting point she made was that we as consumers are now being made to do all the work that a... Read more
Published on 23 Feb 2007 by Felixbelix
"Excuse me, do you have.."
I enquired about this title in the bookshop but the assistant was so rude to me I was momentarily blinded by bathos and fled..
Published on 25 Dec 2006 by K. M. Riches
Talk to the Hand
An unpleasant, self-righteous rant. Buy it for any bores you know who moan all the time, provided you don't mind fueling their grumbles.
Published on 16 Sep 2006 by Susan Hutton
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