A review by baco
Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door by Lynne Truss

2.0

The first half of this book really is a treat. Truss laments the state of manners while discussing their history, raising excellent questions about what manners mean in the twenty-first century, and does at all with considerable wit. But the second half feels more like a long, unstructured (though well-written!) ramble, complaining about who things are and how htey used to be without offering much in the way of concrete suggestions on how to make things better. Eats, Shoots & Leaves complained about misuse of punctuation, but did it while explaining the proper uses of it. Talk to the Hand doesn't really educate about good manners, so in the end what it adds up to is a whole lot of bitching.