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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: 0-425-19018-8 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 03 June, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.94 (16 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: What Can I Say?
Comment: Here's the deal, "Grrls". Your audience, the young ladies and gents of the world, could care less about your breeding.
Breeding does not a refined person make, nor does wearing a black dress and pearls, urban decay nail polish, or a twinset.
Refinement comes from treating others with dignity, and from knowing the difference between advice and insult. Etiquette comes from respect not only for tradition, but also from a love of others, and a desire to be kind and gentle in your dealings with others.
Etiquette is not about whether or not you follow trends or like Andrew Lloyd Webber. Etiquette is simply treating other people well, something in which these Grrls could use a few lessons.
This book is nothing more than a diatribe against anything the Grrls don't like. These "Grrls" suggest that if one doesn't care for the same books, movies, music, TV, etc, that one is somehow lacking in social grace.
I suggest a different perspective: The Etiquette Grrls hide behind such snobbery under the guise of "Etiquette" when really it is to cover some inferiority complex with which they struggle.
I suggest that you look at this book as a warning: this is exactly what can happen if you let a string of pearls or an overpriced education determine your self-worth.
Leave this on the shelf, then go out into the world, say please, say thank you, bite your tongue in anger, and use your own two hands to help a stranger in some way every day, and you will be more polite and refined than these Grrls could ever hope to be.
Rating: 4
Summary: Fun, but will probably only appeal to some.
Comment: More Things You Need to Be Told is not only an etiquette book, it is a lifestyle handbook as well. The Etiquette Grrls style and humor will probably only appeal to a limited number of people, and may come across as rather old fashioned & snobby to many. They do give common sense advice that alot of people seem to not follow (wearing tube tops in church, having a huge gift registery for your child's first birthday, etc.) but some things seem rather like fun, albeit unnesscesary gripes, such as the existence of annoying cell phone rings. However, you can just write that off as a tongue-in-cheek litte thing and get on with your life.
The EGs also include an extensive list of (mostly) classic films and books they deem necessary viewing/reading material, and a fashion 101 thing for boys. I definentely don't think anyone needs to follow their fashion advice seriously (it's only about how to follow a preppy-vintage thing) but you have to admit, it IS fun to read about.
Some of their advice may be old-fashioned, but you are not obligated to take it seriously! I am rather annoyed by some bitter reviews of this book and the first EG book that gripe about how sour and caustic the EGs are. I am quite sure the Etiquette grrls know that you don't have to be an East coast preppy to be gracious and intelligent, but incorporating their personal tastes into their writing is a way to make it more fun.
I enjoyed this book, and would definentely buy a third volume by the EGs.
Rating: 1
Summary: Crass, tacky grrls
Comment: Filled with name-dropping, label-dropping, and snobby "witticisms," this book is an ugly, mean book. Far from a book on how to behave, it's a guidebook on things *not* to do. If it's meant to be funny, it failed, at least for me.
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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: 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: What Southern Women Know (That Every Woman Should): Timeless Secrets to Get Everything You Want in Love, Life, and Work by Ronda Rich ISBN: 0399526277 Publisher: Perigee Pub. Date: 12 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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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: Swell : A Girl's Guide to the Good Life by Ilene Rosenzweig, Cynthia Rowley ISBN: 0446524565 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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