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Modern Manners

An Etiquette Book for Rude People

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Modern Manners

By: PJ O'Rourke
Narrated by: James Edward Thomas
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In Modern Manners, cultural guru P. J. O'Rourke provides the essential accessory for the truly contemporary man or woman - a rulebook for living in a world without rules. Traditionally, good manners were a means of becoming as bland and invisible as everyone else, and thus of avoiding calling attention to one's own awkwardness and stupidity. Today, with everyone wanting to appear special, stupidity is at a premium and manners - as outrageous and bizarre as possible - are a wonderful way to distinguish ourselves, or have a fine time trying.

Modern Manners is an irreverent and hilarious guide to anti-etiquette that offers pointed advice on a range of topics from sex and entertaining to reading habits and death. With the most up-to-date forms of vulgarity, churlishness, and presumption, the latest fashions in discourtesy and barbarous display, P. J. O'Rourke makes it easier for all of us to survive with style in a rude world.

©1983, 1989 P. J. O'Rourke. Recorded by arrangement with Grove Atlantic, Inc. (P)2014 Audible Inc. Literature & Fiction Satire Comedy Funny Witty Modern Etiquette

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just couldnt get into this book. Not alot of story, just a bunch of randomly strung together lessons on how to be the ultimate douche.

Lacking

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PJ O'Rourke is the original South Park conservative....irreverent but witty. A lot of the jokes in here are somewhat dated and some parts are better than others but the humor still works. but if one is in their 20s, that might be too much of a difference.

it was written a while ago but most of the jokes still land

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Irreverent. Funny. Inappropriate. Satirical. Ironic. Timely. O’Rourke gets “it” and has no problem characterizing “it”.

Mind your manners.

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