A review by heather01602to60660
Would It Kill You to Stop Doing That: A Modern Guide to Manners by Henry Alford

2.0

This was hard to rate - I *enjoyed* the book, but wouldn't recommend it, at least within its own genre. I don't know if the author even knows what this book was meant to be - was it a book *about* manners as a topic, was it an etiquette book giving hints on how to behave, was it a series of (admittedly often amusing) essays? I sure couldn't tell you.

At times, there were great moments in reading, and then at times I'd get to the end of a chapter and still not sure what the topic of said chapter was. (The cutesy chapter titles were little more than that - cutesy.)

I would enjoy speaking with Mr. Alford at a social gathering - he is quite witty and made me laugh out loud a few times while reading. However, I would not recommend him as an expert on manners based on this particular book.