The Rise Of Rudeness
Mar. 4th, 2007 05:32 pmDec 2006
Talk to the Hand - Lynne Truss - Profile Books, 2005
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Lynne Truss, the queen of the grumpy old women, is back with a book about modern manners, or more accurately the lack of them. Like her previous one it is an entertaining and thoughtful read, but the subtitle - The Utter Bloody Rudeness of Modern Life (or six good reasons to stay home and bolt the door) - reveals its Daily Telegraph-derived jeremiad tendencies, and unlike Eats, Shoots and Leaves it is not particularly enlightening.
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Talk to the Hand - Lynne Truss - Profile Books, 2005
* * *
Lynne Truss, the queen of the grumpy old women, is back with a book about modern manners, or more accurately the lack of them. Like her previous one it is an entertaining and thoughtful read, but the subtitle - The Utter Bloody Rudeness of Modern Life (or six good reasons to stay home and bolt the door) - reveals its Daily Telegraph-derived jeremiad tendencies, and unlike Eats, Shoots and Leaves it is not particularly enlightening.
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