- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin (May 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0312330235
- ISBN-13: 978-0312330231
- Product Dimensions: 2.1 x 1.4 x 0.2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,257,068 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Not worth buying
29 Nov 2009
Format:Paperback
Clearly from many of the reviews I've read here, many of her sychophantic minions from Etiquette Hell have written their own "reviews" to bolster sales of their mascot's book.
There is nothing in this book that cannot be read for free from your public library. Jeanne Hamilton is too full of herself and mean spirited for my taste and many of the tales are just a retelling of what has already been posted on her website. Some of the stories are quite old and can be looked up online and read for free.
Save your money towards your wedding instead of wasting it on buying an unecessary book.
There is nothing in this book that cannot be read for free from your public library. Jeanne Hamilton is too full of herself and mean spirited for my taste and many of the tales are just a retelling of what has already been posted on her website. Some of the stories are quite old and can be looked up online and read for free.
Save your money towards your wedding instead of wasting it on buying an unecessary book.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Bad taste is easy to recognize
17 Dec 2011
Format:Paperback
Wedding Etiquette Hell contains stories of supposedly bad wedding etiquette from the editor's well-known Etiquette Hell website.
The book started off great, but then I got to the one that purported to show "bad taste" but which in reality was a smug, very subtle put-down of a non-WASP tradition. Soon I realized that many of the stories Ms. Hamilton chose from her website for this book aren't actually poking fun at individual foibles but at other cultures and peoples. It's all coded bigotry - bigotry against men, against non-WASP cultures, against non-Americans (especially the English - oh how does she loathe the English), and even against the poor.
It's really unsettling to find so much coded bigotry in a book purporting to be about avoiding bad taste. I mean, laughing at people who do stupid things is fine, but laughing at them because they don't fulfill the unspoken expectations of the rich, white, American elite? I can't think of anything less funny, or in worse taste.
The sad part about this is that the coded bigotry in this book could (and probably does) leave people thinking that good manners have more to do with contempt for other people than about not treating other people badly. Miss Manners does it better and without the undercurrent of contempt: she's funnier too.
I hardly have to add that this book doesn't actually give any advice that a bride could use: it's mainly just "point a finger and laugh at the stupid men/foreigners/poor/English; aren't we smug white female Americans better and smarter than they are?".
The book started off great, but then I got to the one that purported to show "bad taste" but which in reality was a smug, very subtle put-down of a non-WASP tradition. Soon I realized that many of the stories Ms. Hamilton chose from her website for this book aren't actually poking fun at individual foibles but at other cultures and peoples. It's all coded bigotry - bigotry against men, against non-WASP cultures, against non-Americans (especially the English - oh how does she loathe the English), and even against the poor.
It's really unsettling to find so much coded bigotry in a book purporting to be about avoiding bad taste. I mean, laughing at people who do stupid things is fine, but laughing at them because they don't fulfill the unspoken expectations of the rich, white, American elite? I can't think of anything less funny, or in worse taste.
The sad part about this is that the coded bigotry in this book could (and probably does) leave people thinking that good manners have more to do with contempt for other people than about not treating other people badly. Miss Manners does it better and without the undercurrent of contempt: she's funnier too.
I hardly have to add that this book doesn't actually give any advice that a bride could use: it's mainly just "point a finger and laugh at the stupid men/foreigners/poor/English; aren't we smug white female Americans better and smarter than they are?".
33 of 44 people found the following review helpful
Miss Manners would be horrified
30 July 2006
Format:Paperback
This is not a guide, it's a collection of wedding horror stories other people have submitted to the author's website. You can read those stories for free.
The author's attempt at wit falls far short of the mark...she comes across as a mean-spirited boor. For real wedding advice, pick up Peggy Post's updated edition of Emily Post's Wedding Etiquette instead.
The author's attempt at wit falls far short of the mark...she comes across as a mean-spirited boor. For real wedding advice, pick up Peggy Post's updated edition of Emily Post's Wedding Etiquette instead.
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