- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: Profile Books; 1st Edition edition (24 Oct 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1861979339
- ISBN-13: 978-1861979339
- Product Dimensions: 18.6 x 13.2 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (52 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 153,118 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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As seen on Richard & Judy, November 24, 2005
'It's a zeitgeist...people are beginning to get really fed up, so maybe we’ll have some kind of quiet revolution.'
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'highly perceptive, passionately argued and extremely funny...a brilliantly nailed truth about contemporary life.'
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196 of 202 people found the following review helpful:
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Funny and provocative,
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This review is from: Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of Everyday Life: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of Everyday Life (or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door) (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:
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This review is from: Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of Everyday Life: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of Everyday Life (or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door) (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
83 of 92 people found the following review helpful:
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A doughty follow-up for the panda lovers,
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This review is from: Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of Everyday Life: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of Everyday Life (or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door) (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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