Good Manners For Nice People Who Some..., Amy Alkon
Good Manners For Nice People Who Some..., Amy Alkon
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Good Manners For Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck

Author: Amy Alkon

Narrator: Amy Alkon

Unabridged: 7 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/03/2014


Synopsis

We live in a world that’s very different from the one in which Emily Post came of age. Many of us who are nice (but, who also sometimes say "f*ck") are frequently at a loss for guidelines about how to be a good person who deals effectively with the onslaught of rudeness we all encounter. To lead us through this this miasma of modern manners, syndicated columnist Amy Alkon—The Advice Goddess—gives us a new set of manners for our 21st century lives. In chapters titled "The Telephone," "The Internet," "The Apology," and "Communicating," among others, Alkon maps out new rules that go beyond what fork to use to answer real questions we all have:• When is it okay to phone somebody instead of emailing or texting? When is it rude?
• Why shouldn't you tweet about a guest at a private dinner party? Everybody knows privacy is dead, right?
• How do you shut the guy up in the pharmacy line with his cellphone on speaker?
• When is it right to approach somebody who’s crying in public and when is it right to leave him alone?
• When should you unfriend somebody on Facebook and what do you say when she calls you on it?
• If you have an STD, when do you tell people, what do you say and do you have to contact everyone you’ve ever had sex with?
Real advice for today with more than a touch of humor, Good Manners for Nice People Who Sometimes Say "F*ck" is destined to give good old Emily a shove off the etiquette shelf (if that's not too rude to say).

About Amy Alkon

Amy Alkon writes “The Advice Goddess,” an award-winning syndicated column that runs in about one hundred newspapers across the United States and Canada. She is also the author of I See Rude People and has been on Good Morning America, The Today Show, NPR, CNN, MTV, and Entertainment Tonight. She has a weekly radio show called Nerd Your Way to a Better Life! (With the Best Brains in Therapy and Research) and has written for Psychology Today, the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, the New York Daily News, and Pravda, among others. She lives in Venice, California. Visit her Web site at advicegoddess.com or follow her on Twitter at @amyalkon.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jamie on April 06, 2021

I don’t know who came up with the title for this book, whether it was the author, her agent, or the publisher, but it was a brilliant choice. I never read books on etiquette and manners, but this one stopped me in my tracks based on the title alone, and since I was looking for something light to rea......more

Goodreads review by S on January 09, 2015

Skimming the reviews, I'm seeing a lot of objections raised that are identical to my own regarding this book. Overall, there's some good, sometimes funny stuff in it. But then you get to the victim-blaming bits that may be well intentioned, but are really just squicky. And while landing a man might......more

Goodreads review by Barbara on August 06, 2014

Spectacular! This is the kind of brilliantly witty guidebook that I wish I’d had decades back, so I could have been savoring the opportunity to reread again and again. This book is a classic—not only of great wit, but of solid, scientifically-based information about how people how people can, with a......more

Goodreads review by Bastian on June 15, 2014

Some stuff is actually quite ok, but I strongly disagree on the heteronormative recommendations for dating, those are just plain stupid and kinda ruined it for me. For the rest it really boils down to "don't be an asshole", but if I wanted to read more about that I'd probably go for Kant…......more

Goodreads review by Q on August 06, 2014

Good book. really insightful. Made me reflect on some ways ive unknowingly treated people and reconsider. Everybody should read just for that reflection. worth the time definitely.......more