Nice Review Of My Book By Ed Rampell

Nice Review Of My Book By Ed Rampell Last minute gift idea? Ed Rampell suggests buying my book, I SEE RUDE PEOPLE: One woman's battle to beat some manners into impolite society, and I second that! An excerpt from his review:

Arguing that "rude people are actually stealing from the rest of us by taking communal resources [such as time, space, peace and quiet] as their own," like a Howard Beale of etiquette, Alkon is mad as hell and isn't taking it anymore. The self-described "Revengerella" is striking back -- shooshing bigmouths publicly shrieking into their mobiles; correcting the misbehavior of under-parented children for whom the whole "world is their daycare center"; and, most famously, tracking down telemarketers' phone numbers and calling them at home during dinner. Ah, vengeance is sweet -- but not always. Alkon notes a puzzling phenomenon: Those who speak up against discourtesy are often themselves criticized as being rude scolds. And not only by the perps -- but by twerps who are actually, along with Alkon, being victimized by the miscreants' antisocial boorishness. The "Advice Goddess" considers this to be a form of "Stockholm syndrome," and calls those who pay a price for the public good "costly punishers." We live in an era of unaccountability, wherein war criminals get off and are even awarded the Medal of Freedom; Wall Streeters who devastated our economy are given multi-billion dollar bailouts with money taken from the same taxpayers they've ripped off and thrown out of work; etc. I See Rude People is a badly needed tonic on the micro level, a step towards holding people accountable for their actions. Alkon strikes a blow for an all too uncommon common courtesy.