Synopsis:Once upon a time there were manners and etiquette, and everyone knew their place. Life was simpler then: our parents and grandparents didn't have to deal with the guy who answers his mobile phone at a funeral; decide if they should set out towels for their seventeen-year-old-daughter's sleep-over boyfriend; or figure out how to stop a friend who clogs up your email by sending six gags a day.
The For Guide is not a rule book - it's a guide book. It doesn't tell you what you should do, it documents what you do do. Well, maybe not you as such, but people a lot like you except they're a lot weirder.
Genre:Non-Fiction
Rating:@@@
Pages:319
BCID:xxx-6333615
ISBN:978-0-7333-1958-7
Year:2007
Format:Paperback
Comments:The style was a little bit perturbing at first, but I soon got used to it. This book actually consists of snippets from the author's radio program. Listeners call in with a social dilemma, and other callers call in to say what they would do in that situation. I actually found some of the answers quite fascinating because they were dilemmas I had experienced for myself. Then there were other situations I am glad to have avoided. I was appalled, for example, to read about a person who threw a dinner party and, at the end of the night, demanded $50 a head to pay for the meal!
Each chapter is opened with a humorous 'then and now' type description by the author, breaking up the potential for monotony. I would say this is an amusing book and well worth reading.
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