Wonderful Review In January Magazine
Of my book, I SEE RUDE PEOPLE
This is a seriously great book. Alkon is smart and savvy and funny as hell. And though, given the opportunity (and it's her book, so she's given lots) she plays for the laughs, there are times when she comes perilously close to describing the ways in which our society is breaking down.If it isn't fear of bodily injury that keeps people from speaking up, it's probably fear of verbal confrontation, or maybe they're just not that practiced at it. I'm a syndicated advice columnist with somewhat controversial views, so I regularly get mail from readers that opens with something like "Dear Bitch."There's a clean, forthright and completely unexpected charm in I See Rude People. Everyone should read it for their mental health. And though it's well written and excruciatingly funny, I suspect not everyone will laugh.
"If it isn't fear of bodily injury that keeps people from speaking up, it's probably fear of verbal confrontation, or maybe they're just not that practiced at it."
A friend at work is a part-time Scoutmaster, who has noticed something appalling: extended infancy in children. Some of his boys cannot throw a ball properly. Others are simultaneously thin and flabby, incapable of hikes, tree climbing and so forth. They're up to 12-13 years old.
Where do the kids who don't go to scout camp go to build themselves into capable kids? How are these kids going to be capable of anything later, including confrontation?
As adults, they're going to call the police for everything. Everything. And vote for a police state so someone else can solve all their problems.
Radwaste at March 19, 2010 6:55 PM
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