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Free Advice: The Advice Ladies on Love, Dating, Sex and Relationships
by Amy Alkon, Caroline Johnson, Marlow Minnick, 1996
From Amazon.com:
"It all started in downtown Manhattan one Saturday afternoon in 1988 when three New York advertising agency employees offered advice to a lovelorn waiter. Soon they had set up shop on a Soho corner, peddling "Free Advice" on anything from "Getting Rid of Your Jerk" to "Involuntary Hair Loss" and "Dog Couture." Quickly, the three--Amy Alkon, Marlowe Minnic, and Caroline Johnson--became a big hit, and before you could say "human interest," they were making the talk-show circuit and being featured in the Living sections of metropolitan dailies from coast to coast. Surprisingly perhaps, the advice ladies' no-longer-quite-as-free advice plays just fine on the page, even without the ambience of that Soho street corner. Whether they're categorizing jerks or offering tips on where not to break up ("somewhere distant where you've driven in one car" ), they manage to combine humor and commonsensical advice, always remembering that taking any problem too seriously is the biggest mistake of all." Ilene Cooper |
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I See Rude People: One woman's battle to beat some manners into impolite society
By Amy Alkon, Nov. 27, 2009
“This crazy redhead is on to something. Her pink Rambler story alone is worth the price of the book.”
--Elmore Leonard
“Amy Alkon is intellectually promiscuous -- and funny as hell.”
--Howard Bloom, author of “The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Exploration into the Forces of History.”
“The Land of the Free” is now the land of the free to be rude
We all just suck it up every day. You leave the house for a latté 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 stop all the intruding, shoving, and shouting. She sees 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
...and more.
In this funny, ferocious and freewheeling exposé, 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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