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.

Fuck yeah:)

Loved it! She def did her homework and observations.
Especially funny part where she talks about boarding the plane. True to that!

Useful and funny

I loved it. it was easy to follow and understand. I learned a lot and it was funny too!! I would recommend 100%

Mostly stuff I already knew

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

No. I made it halfway through and didn't find a lot of insightful or even humorous bits of information.

What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?

Not really a story, more of a self-help book

Did Carrington MacDuffie do a good job differentiating all the characters? How?

Sorry, no characters

Could you see Good Manners for Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck being made into a movie or a TV series? Who should the stars be?

Maybe a TV show or series with a comedian punching it up a bit. Jimmy Fallon, Seth Myers or the like.

Any additional comments?

Oh, sorry, but a waste of time.

Little offended by the narrator

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

The book is pretty common sense, and few things are beneficial to try for a passive aggressive peaceful citizens. However, I was offended by the narrator when she explained the Irish bartender with an Irish accent. I wonder if she would've narrated with a Chinese accent if the book had interviewed someone who was Chinese.

not at his best in audio format

it's a good fun book, but because it's composed of short advice snippets , I don't think audio book is the best way to enjoy it

Lots of terrific guidance

This book was recommended to me and having just finished it, I have already recommended it to a friend.

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.)