Review
Sacramento Book Review, September 2008
“At times taking shots at low hanging fruit, this humorous guide to being your very own local elitist will probably be used by those very people it attempts to parody.”
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Product Description
In today’s fast-paced society, who has time to keep up with both the current trends and the classics of what is “good” and “popular”? The Art of Faking It guides you—with tongue planted firmly in cheek—through any awkward, intellectual, and/or über-sophisticated social situation, using both panache and pithy nuggets of wisdom to ensure you’ll never be at a loss for the right words and attitudes again.
Inside you will find everything you need to know about what everyone is talking about— from ordering the “right” food and drink to holding an intelligent conversation about anything, from classical music and architecture to legitimate theater and the opposite sex. With the timely information and savvy advice in this book, playfully illustrated with New Yorker-esque line drawings, you will be the most scintillating conversationalist in the bunch—whether you are faking it or not!
Author Laurence Whitted-Fry, when not doing Mergers and Acquisitions on a multi-national yet ecologically sound level, can be found scuba-diving in the Amazon, race-car driving in Kabul, or raising prized Arabian stallions on a small island off Italy’s southern coast. He is currently working on a follow-up to his best-selling self-help book, A Guide to Investments After the Rapture.
He resides and teaches Feminist Interpretive Dance (FID), and Swiss Cooking Techniques (SCT) in Manhattan and Woodstock, New York.
翻了翻此书,突然想起大学时代那段被尊称为二哥的日子。我是全班年龄最小的。班里最大的那年也有21岁,足足比我大了五岁。可是他们从来不叫我小孩,小朋友,而是在直面装逼王和考试时,轻轻的又充满尊敬的叫我一声,二哥。 我们所学的专业里最装逼的莫过于音乐学了。这种东西,...
评分“你工作上的同事,你原来在工作之中只认识他工作这一面,但是你上他Facebook,你发现他原来喜欢狗,你发现他还喜欢养花,你发现他很讨厌苍井空,我怎么老说苍井空呢……” —— “开卷八分钟”,梁文道 你看,忽然那么一天,到处都开始讲苍井空。仿佛人人都怕落了后,忙不迭...
评分大头马总是说我没有文化,对我而言,没有文化就意味着你都无法分辨什么是装逼,什么是傻逼。这么一个上升到伦理道德层面的严肃问题就像是无法分辨大卫林奇、大卫芬奇、盖里奇、凯文林奇、马尔科维奇以及伊比舍维奇般,在我的世界里日日夜夜的纠结。 有什么方法能让我真正的成为...
评分总有一些人在你面前装X,自我感觉非常良好地炫弄似是而非的品位,面对这些“上流社会”的假正经和文艺青年的小情调,你可以敬而远之不予理会,但这并不是最好的选择,因为你纵容了他们的肤浅与无知。最好的选择是——用你的学问和见识将他们彻底击垮,让他们从此不敢在你面前显...
评分翻了翻此书,突然想起大学时代那段被尊称为二哥的日子。我是全班年龄最小的。班里最大的那年也有21岁,足足比我大了五岁。可是他们从来不叫我小孩,小朋友,而是在直面装逼王和考试时,轻轻的又充满尊敬的叫我一声,二哥。 我们所学的专业里最装逼的莫过于音乐学了。这种东西,...
O(∩_∩)O哈哈~ 第一本全部看完的英文书~太装了 不过值得一看。
评分本书中文名叫装13的艺术
评分消遣用..时代产物
评分消遣用..时代产物
评分没看完.这种书不在他的文化背景下,很难领会或共鸣.而且术语太多.
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