What Are You Reading

[Retro Spectator]

Let us know how it works.

I never understood why people read "guides" like this - they all seem to me like simple money schemes. [huh]
Constraining oneself to behave "according to the rulebook" must be awkward.

Secondly, the impression I have (from reviews... correct me if wrong), is that the reader is told to be a passive, smiling yes-man and nice to everyone.

This won't win you "friends" and you certainly won't influence people.
Nothing wrong with good manners and politeness... but being natural, assertive and when needed blunt will do you much better.

I would love to tell you how it works, but I would need to reread it, because I unfortunately have a pretty poor memory, and I started reading it in January! I can't remember the first chapter well at all, and it is one of those books which you need to remember a lot.

The person who reviewed it and said that it tells the reader to be a yes-man seems mistaken. The book does tell you to be nice to everyone, and to avoid arguments. It does however, tell you to how criticize without causing resentment. Sadly, I can't remember the details, but I believe it went something like this. A guy who is supposed to be cleaning is doing a very poor job. You tell him that cleaning the place would make everything look better, and since the CEO is coming for a visit, it would help the whole place's morale, he needn't rush, but if he did it ASAP, he wouldn't have to clean later, or something like that.

I'd recommend it. It was fun to read. It actually tells you little stories, rather than being a boring text book.

 

[DNO]

Ariana Franklin's The Serpent's Tale

 

[1mach1]

Daredevil #181......again.

 

[Touchofevil]

Daredevil #181......again.

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I have that one and all of Frank Miller's run on Daredevil. It has been quite a while since I read that storyline.

 

[Touchofevil]

Ben Tripp's Rise Again: A Zombie Thriller

 

[tmal]

You Know Me Al...........I have been meaning to read it all my life and finally got to it. If you have never read it,you really should. It is clever, truthful, full of human insight; the style is superb. I instantly saw why it is a classic.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Ring Lardner is one of the great forgotten American writers.

 

[jamespowers]

I have that one and all of Frank Miller's run on Daredevil. It has been quite a while since I read that storyline.

High brow reading.

 

[Touchofevil]

High brow reading.

lol

 

[1mach1]

I have that one and all of Frank Miller's run on Daredevil. It has been quite a while since I read that storyline.

It's a great story run for sure.

 

[Touchofevil]

It's a great story run for sure.

Yes it is even though it lacks of "highbrow-ocity."

 

[DNO]

Stephen Clarke's "1000 Years of Annoying the French". Tres amusant!

 

[1mach1]

Speedboat

Good times.

 

[HadleyH]

I finished my book...4 sisters.

I am sad because I need more authors writing books about those last years...before the Grand Ducheses and family were killed in that basement by those horrid bolsheviques ....Tzar Nicolas II who was their dad...wanted to live their exile in the Crimea in Ukrania and not in Siberia where they were killed......in that wonderful Palace Livadia in Crimea ....in Russian Crimea ..so many photos and lovely souvenirs....


Livadia in the Crimea their cottage ....always belonged to the Russian Empire....


Marie in Livadia on holidays (there were 5 siblings ..this is only Marie

 

[HadleyH]

so....

have you heard of the Russian Empire???? have you heard of the Tzar? of the Grand Duchesses? of how they were murdered?

of course not .... ignoramus ...I get it..let me go weep here...sad.

too sad

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Bozhe, Tsarya khrani!

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[HadleyH]

:eusa_clapLong live Russia's double-headed eagle !!!! ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

 

[DNO]

This is the last residence of Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna, sister of Tsar Nicholas II. She passed away in Toronto (in the apartment over the travel agency) in 1960. A long, long way from St. Petersburg.

 

[Touchofevil]

Ben Tripp's second zombie thriller, Rise Again: Below Zero

 

[Derek Cavin]

I just completed How to Win Friends and Influence People. It was a good book, but I will take some time off from reading. Why? I find reading slow, and it seems to be difficult for me. I have always been this way, and I have no idea why. I just start day dreaming when reading. Unfortunately, that affects my reading comprehension negatively.

The next book I might read, would either be the Lord of the Rings (the length of the book scares me), or some other book.

I find when I read books like this I tend to daydream too, thinking about instances where things have happened or what I could have done better. This applies to all management, leadership, self-improvement books. It gets me thinking, but I find I have to go back and re-read a paragraph or two.