Good Manners for Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck

By: Amy Alkon

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins

Publisher's summary

We live in a world that's very different from the one in which Emily Post came of age. Many of us who are nice (but who also sometimes say "f*ck") are frequently at a loss for guidelines about how to be a good person who deals effectively with the onslaught of rudeness we all encounter. To lead us through this this miasma of modern manners, syndicated columnist Amy Alkon - The Advice Goddess - gives us a new set of manners for our 21st-century lives. In chapters titled "The Telephone", "The Internet", "The Apology", and "Communicating", among others, Alkon maps out new rules that go beyond what fork to use to answer real questions we all have:

• When is it okay to phone somebody instead of emailing or texting? When is it rude?
• Why shouldn't you tweet about a guest at a private dinner party? Everybody knows privacy is dead, right?
• How do you shut the guy up in the pharmacy line with his cellphone on speaker?
• When is it right to approach somebody who's crying in public and when is it right to leave him alone?
• When should you unfriend somebody on Facebook and what do you say when she calls you on it?
• If you have an STD, when do you tell people, what do you say, and do you have to contact everyone you've ever had sex with?

Real advice for today with more than a touch of humor, Good Manners for Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck is destined to give good old Emily a shove off the etiquette shelf (if that's not too rude to say).

©2014 Amy Alkon (P)2014 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved.

Miss Manners for Grown-ups

What does Carrington MacDuffie bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

Carrington MacDuffie matches the tone of the book. Her voice enhanced my enjoyment.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

Who needs a tagline with a title like that?!

Any additional comments?

I did not agree all of Amy Alkon's suggestions, but I respected her opinions. Her approach to manners for the new millennium is practical and comical. Well done!

Very reasonable advice!

I think Amy gives very reasonable and fair advice to readers and lays out a fairly clear plan for being mannerly in all situations. At one point, the books does seem heavy on dating advice and another chapter seems more like "how good people who sometimes say fuck can avoid being arrested," but over all, I really enjoyed it.

Introvert Friendly

Love this book! Even introverts like me can reach out to others with kindness without becoming doormats. Very funny too!

Entertaining but...

Entertaining but often confusing. I tend to agree with many of the negative commenters at Goodreads regarding much of her advice about dating and sexual harassment. I don't think anyone should tolerate some creep bothering them. On the other hand, you can't go through life with a one solution fits all circumstances which I think leads to some of the confusing and often contradictory advice. I would tend to recommend caution in engaging people like she does. On the other hand, it did give me some hints on how to reduce my own level of public poor behavior. I don't need to walk around with a chip on my shoulder. If some says hello, it is not a insult.

I go around with don't mess with me written on my face and maybe that is not entirely necessary.

In any event the book is imparted with humor and is rather entertaining.

Inspiring

And fun. Worth a listen or even two to change how we can relate to other people in societies too big for our brains.

good values and comun (not that comun) sense.

I enjoyed most of the book and had some good laugh on funny images and thoughts association. it has some aspects that are more related to USA/Californians identify than it would have with Europeans and or Latin culture. i learned from it and heard about aspects that never thought before. well done!

Post millennial manners

“Euphemisms are the plastic nose and glasses of polite speech.”
A fun listen with strategies for navigating life and manipulating neighbors. Sometimes it’s good to be passive aggressive; other times you should just be aggressive. This ran a bit long. I think this works best broken down into smaller listens, as if it was a podcast.

Mostly Mindless

What did you like best about Good Manners for Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck? What did you like least?

The narration was the best part of this book. I don't think that most of the advice in the book is any good. It took me several attempts at listening to this book before I finally made it through to the end.

Did the narration match the pace of the story?

The narrator was perfect for this book.

Loved It!

I loved this book! Lots of great advice and stories and MacDuffie made it extreamly easy to listen to.

good points. personal preference though...

truthfully, I do like and appreciate what she's saying. however, I'm on chapter 5 and not sure I'm going to continue listening because it sounds like she's really Fing pissed off. I want the info, and so far I'd use/priorly used much of it, but I do not like swinging back and forth between laughing in disbelief and getting PO'd myself via the human tendency to absorb other's attitudes and tendencies (mostly the latter). bottom line: if you absolutely have no backbone and are not simply a passive aggressive git, this may be a book worth reading. (emphasis on Reading, not listening, for this book.)