I See Rude People: One Woman’s Battle to Beat Some Manners into Impolite Society
By Amy Alkon
3.5/5
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"Amy Alkon is intellectually promiscuous--and funny as hell." -- Paleopsychologist Howard Bloom, author of The Lucifer Principle
We all just suck it up every day. You leave the house for a latte and somebody'll flip you the bird on your way and force their loud cellphone conversation on you once you're there.
It doesn't have to be that way, says award-winning syndicated columnist Amy Alkon. Her hilarious stories of her in-your-face encounters with rude people and businesses will inspire you to stand up to the boors in your own world.
Alkon not only gives the offenders a taste of their own medicine, she delves into anthropology, psychology, and behavioral science to figure out why we're rude and how we can stop all the intruding, shoving, and shouting. She ensures that all these rude people get their comeuppance:
-Lax parents
-Internet bullies
-Rude drivers
-Negligent businesses
-Telemarketing executives
-Car thieves
-Parking space hogs
-That loud jerk in the drugstore line
In this funny, ferocious and freewheeling expose, Alkon gives you the tools you need to confront these abusers and restore common courtesy, respect and good manners to society...one chastened cellphone shouter at a time.
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Reviews for I See Rude People
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I was extremely disappointed by this book. I thought that there would be some really constructive ideas of how to handle rudeness, especially Cell phone users, parents who let their children run wild and even telemarketers. Her actions as identified in this book are just as rude as those people that she is complaining about. Maybe she should take a look at herself.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5There is a long subtitle to this one, which pretty much says it all: “One woman’s battle to beat some manners into impolite society”. The author is a blogger and has an advice column. She is quite outspoken when it comes to people being rude. There are chapters on people talking loudly on their cell phones (one of my pet peeves!), parents who don’t parent, telemarketers, and more. I really enjoyed this. There was plenty of humour and I applaud her for standing up to some of these people! She goes to extremes in some cases (like with the telemarketers… or hunting down the guy who stole her car, and trying to hunt down whoever stole her identity), but good for her!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is a good book for ideas of how to handle those situations we all hate: rude people, loud cell phone users,road rage drivers,and unruly kids with parents that have no parenting skills. This is great for her ideas,and you won't feel powerless. But she does get a bit too much into the pyschology of today's rude behviour.
A good overall book on how to handle everyday rude people. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Amy Alkon is a bastard child of Miss Manners and Howard Stern and in her book I See Rude People, she recalls her history of responses to boors on cell phones, unparented children and their parents, car and identity thieves, and unhelpful or illegal corporations. I really enjoyed her information on the how rudeness figures into evolutionary psychology and economics, and she does have a few helpful anecdotes mixed in with her hefty doses of revenge. While this is hardly a how-to manual on combating rude behaviors, it will hopefully remind all of us not only to treat the world as if we know 150 people, but to also speak up when we see something down-right rude, to help those who are just too appalled to speak.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is a well-researched, funny, and thought provoking book. Amy tells how she has battled rude people through the years including hunting down the man who stole her car and badgering him until he returned it and taking on Bank of America when she suffered from identity theft due to their errors. In many ways, Amy herself sounds rather rude, but, objectively, what she says and does, makes sense and from the photo on the cover on the book she does NOT look like a tranny. You will have to read the book to see what that refers to. I found it interesting that research shows that our brains are wired to function well in a community of up to 150 people without needing any policing, but when there are more people than that, we need laws, rules, and law enforcers. Her thoughts on poor parenting, which she calles underparenting, and the fact that all adults may participate in telling children how to behave in France, are quite interesting. Her stories of how she fines and sues telephone solicitors for wasting her time, and hunts down criminals who are misguided enough to mess with her are very funny and while I won't do those things myself, it is satisfying to know that someone does and that at least some annoying telemarketers, spammers and criminals are getting back some of what they dish out.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I LOVED this book! If you glare at someone having a loud cell phone conversation in a restaurant or any other public place you have got to read this book! Amy has some great ideas to combat rudeness.