A review by anngarth8
Would It Kill You to Stop Doing That: A Modern Guide to Manners by Henry Alford

1.0

The book was a mix of memoir and advice, which were oddly interspersed without any clear (to me) structure. The author writes for Vanity Fair and the New Yorker and this book's tone was the worst of those -- using fancy words unnecessarily, trying too hard to be dry and witty. There were quite a few small factual inaccuracies in the service of witticisms, which annoyed me. I didn't find the memoir parts particularly illuminating. And the advice content was not helpful to me either, and in some cases it was based on the suggestion of just one person and seemed controversial.