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Title: Things You Need to Be Told by The Etiquette Grrls, Lesley Carlin, Honore McDonough Ervin ISBN: 0-425-18370-X Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 09 October, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.95 (64 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Funny, Helpful, but Limited
Comment: I have been a fan of the Etiquette Grrls website for some time now, and felt compelled to buy their book. They provide a plethora of great tips on their site. This book is clearly written tongue-in-cheek, but at times the gals come across as pretentious and snobby. Definitely, they provide a significant amount of etiquette tips that are helpful to those of us ignorant beasties who want to be polite and thoughtful, but were raised in or around a pack of wolves. But their East Coast self-love and tradition will be less than entertaining and slightly snotty and inapplicable to many West Coasters. Also, this book is not for people under 18 due to the grrls rapture over the alcoholic drink. (Stumbling home drunk, by the way, is always boorish.) I would recommend the grrls write a book for younger folks as preventative medicine is the best medicine. This book is lightly entertaining and a very, very quick read.
Rating: 5
Summary: Things a lot of people don't know they need to be told
Comment: _Things You Need to Be Told_, the Etiquette Grrls' witty, urbane and, yes children, often satiric handbook on modern manners, combines a good read with sound etiquette advice that never goes out of style.
Leticia Baldridge, no slouch herself when it comes to courtesy and the right way to do things, enjoyed the book enough to endorse it. And, I am reliably informed that it is favourite backstage reading for Tony Award winner Robert Sean Leonard. Closer to home, several of my friends regard it as a valuable
reference, and wouldn't dream of planning a party or accepting an invitation without consulting it.
For myself, I find the book at least as informative as Miss Manners, and a good deal more enjoyable. Is it perfect? No. As a non-smoker and non-drinker I find their references to liquor and cigarettes annoying. But I can live with that. The practical advice on dressing, comportment, etc. and the well-laid-out and simple guides to such essentials as the properly set table more than make up for any discomfort I may have with the authors' sometimes freewheeling style.
And, just a word about that style. I am dismayed to find, as I found with most of the reviews of Glass Hammer's _Chronometree_, that a good many of the reviewers just don't get it. Wake up, guys! These are characters here. TYNTBT belongs to that relatively new genre, Creative Non-fiction. The facts are straight in this case; it's the speakers, the narrators, the Etiquette Grrls themselves who are the put-on. Nobody's really like that! They're over the top for a reason - a reason that I'm sorry to say many of the previous reviewers don't seem to grasp - to make the dry subject of courtesy and manners enjoyable. This simple fact seems to have gone over a great many heads. This is unfortunate, since those heads belong to precisely the people who need the Etiquette Grrls' help the most.
Rating: 5
Summary: Lighten up!
Comment: I have 2 words for all those EGs bashers - Lighten Up! This book is supposed to be light and humorous, while at the same time provide its readers with simple solutions for everyday etiquette quandaries. Yes, the EGs are sometimes harsh in conveying their frustrations about the rude people in our society, but this is all meant to be tongue-in-cheek. As someone in their mid-20's, I find that my generation has grown too lazy and "comfortable" to follow any type of rules, let alone rules of etiquette and I believe that this book should be incorporated into every high school's reading requirements. It is funny enough for teens to enjoy, but more importantly, it is very informative. It is a light-hearted description of silly things we've all done and are ashamed to admit. I mean, common, you'd have to be a rock not to laugh at the EGs' descriptions of some of the vehicles one encounters on the road - collections of beanie babies on the window, or all those annoying bumper stickers. I think the book is hilarious and I encourage everyone to read it.
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Title: More Things You Need to Be Told: A Guide to Good Taste and Proper Comportment in a Tacky, Rude World by Lesley Carlin, Honore McDonough Ervin, Etiquette Grrls ISBN: 0425190188 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 03 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Better Than Beauty: A Guide to Charm by Helen Valentine, Alice Thompson, Emery I. Gondor ISBN: 0811834514 Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: How To Be A Lady A Contemporary Guide To Common Courtesy by Candace Simpson-Giles, Candace Simpson Giles ISBN: 1558539395 Publisher: Rutledge Hill Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: The Bombshell Manual of Style by Laren Stover, Ruben Toledo ISBN: 0786866942 Publisher: Hyperion Press Pub. Date: 16 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Three Black Skirts : All You Need To Survive by Anna Johnson ISBN: 0761119396 Publisher: Workman Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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