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Summary: Excrutiating reading
Review: I am probably just a rude and awful person, but I find this book excrutiating to read. I bought it a few years ago as a "handy reference". I have read a few things in the book that were amusing, but I think the manners and suggested etiquette are dated from late 19th-very early 20th century! There are references in the book to women "rushing home for lunch hour from work to give a tea"! Anyone with a real job would not find a way to do this. She also suggests anyone who does not think there is a difference between serving guests with silver vs. stainless steel utensils is "not ready to be married". Well, I apologize if I cannot AFFORD to buy silver just to have a few friends over, nor do I have have any family with enough money to afford to buy me silver as a wedding gift! And-she checks wedding invitations with her finger to make sure they are properly engraved-what kind of sick person does that??!! Is it so bad to send very nice invitations with thermographed lettering and envelopes printed with a nice font instead of engraved and paying a calligrapher to address envelopes? I don't follow a lot of what I have read in the book and I don't think I could handle being friends with people who did. They would make me feel very uncomfortable all the time.
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Summary: Required Reading for all young people
Review: I first purchased this book when I was in 10th grade, and it served me well throughout many social occasions, situations etc. Now as an adult, I've purchased the only copy I could find (used on amazon.com) for my children. This book covers it all, from how to properly eat at a formal place setting, to the proper way to introduce people. She offers smart sassy comebacks to those who need them, and a bit of a chuckle for those of us who were raised with proper manners (unlike the offerings I've seen here at the University where I work among the students!!!)
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Summary: Not Just for Table Manners
Review: This is most certainly NOT Emily Post at work here. Miss Manners is excrutiatingly correct and absolutely thorough in this best of all the entries in her series of books. But even if you don't care about Proper Behavior, this book is a great read. Miss Manners is a great writer; her work is pointed, sharp and funny. She has the gift of making me laugh out loud as I read about matters that I don't even care much about, and hardly a chapter went by without my learning something useful. Someone wisely chose to include letters written to her column; it's in her byplay with her readers that she shines brightest. A great read for any fans of fine, tight column writing, no matter what the subject.
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