A review by sarahbotreads
Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work by Tim Gunn

3.0

I love Tim Gunn - I just want to hug him and have him tell me what to wear. I liked his first book (which was more fully focused on fashion/style) so much, so I was really excited for this one, which is meant to be a more general etiquette book. There were lots of parts I loved about it, mostly Tim's anecdotes about his life and the other fashion-industry personalities he's met and worked with, and certainly a lot of his etiquette tips made sense (be nice, take the high road, know when it's appropriate to share information and when to keep it to yourself), but there were definitely a lot of his points that I disagreed with (giving a homemade gift means you're cheap, printing out every e-mail before you send it is fine because the trees are already dead, etc). I think I would have really loved this if it had been more of a memoir, and less of a here's-what-you-should-do.