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Chargement... Would It Kill You to Stop Doing That? A Modern Guide to Manners (édition 2012)par Henry Alford (Auteur)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. I had no idea that this book would be so funny, although I suppose the title should have given me a clue. For example, these two lines: "We are, all of us, every day, adding to the Wikipedia entry for humanity. We are, all of us, eternally, inheriting and bequeathing the toilet seat" (27). With good humor and funny anecdotes, Alford argues that "contrary to popular opinion, manners are not a luxury good that's interesting only to those who can afford to think about them... to practice good manners is to confer upon others not just consideration but esteem" (32). ( ) A work of often laugh-out-loud humor in the guise of "A Modern Guide to Manners." It does address manners & is, indeed, modern, as when Alford notes: "To attend a business meeting where five or more executives slap their BlackBerrys down on the conference room table like tribal warriors bearing severed heads reminds one that humans didn't get to the top of the food chain by sitting around in their pajamas." Alford is simultaneously authoritative & self-effacing, &, did I mention, funny. A work of often laugh-out-loud humor in the guise of "A Modern Guide to Manners." It does address manners & is, indeed, modern, as when Alford notes: "To attend a business meeting where five or more executives slap their BlackBerrys down on the conference room table like tribal warriors bearing severed heads reminds one that humans didn't get to the top of the food chain by sitting around in their pajamas." Alford is simultaneously authoritative & self-effacing, &, did I mention, funny.
His slim but lively meditation on manners is far more witty-anecdote-driven and personal than pedagogical, a mean game of tiddlywinks played on the minefield of manners rather than a series of law-giving tablets etched in stone.
"We all know bad manners when we see them," author Henry Alford observes. But what do good manners look like in our day and age? When someone answers their cell phone in the middle of dining with you, or you enter a post-apocalyptic public restroom, the long-revered wisdom of Emily Post can seem downright prehistoric. So Alford studies how things might look if people were on their best behavior more often. He travels to Japan to observe its collective politesse. He interviews etiquette experts likely (Judith Martin, Tim Gunn) and unlikely (a former prisoner, an army sergeant). He volunteers as a tour guide to foreigners visiting New York City in order to study cultural divides. He also finds time to teach Miss Manners how to steal a cab, and designates the World's Most Annoying Bride. Ultimately, by tackling etiquette questions of our age, he presents a seriously entertaining book about grace, civility, and how we can simply treat each other better.--From publisher description. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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