The Alphabet of Modern Annoyances
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.35 (967 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0385481713 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 290 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-21 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The author of Complete and Utter Failure presents a hilarious look at twenty-six things that drive us all crazy, offering an alphabetical assortment of annoyances ranging from ""A Is for Advertising"" to ""W Is for Workplace,"" and so on.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. One of the funniest things about this book is that you can't always tell where the indignation stops and the humor takes over. From Publishers Weekly Steinberg, a reporter for the Chicago-Sun Times, takes aim here at 26 of his pet peeves ranging from advertising to zealot. As a country, Yugoslavia comes in for his barbed and not-so-funny asides. Along the way he skewers such past or present personalities as Elvis and Oprah, firms such as Disney and McDonald's and bugaboos of modern life such as bureaucracy, journalism and traffic. This is sure to tickle anyone who ever had a pet peeve, unless it was the h-word (humor). . After excoriating the omnipresent Disney?corporati
"Neil Steinberg is wonderful!" according to Edna anders. I try to read everything written by Neil Steinberg, including his column in the Chicago Sun Times. He's great and I'm a huge fan.. "Entertain, scabrious look at modern life" according to Author Bill Peschel. Neil Steinberg is annoyed. Not irritated, bothered, vexed or harassed. He's angry, in the same fashion as Mark Twain, who wrote the following: "I don't ever seem to be in a good enough humor with anything to satirize it; no, I want to stand up before it & curse it, & foam at the mouth -- or take a club and pound it to rags & pulp."Fortunately for his book, "The Alphabet of Modern Annoyances," Steinberg doesn't ta. Mostly entertaining. Rissa Some of what Steinberg writes about has already been done to death by the media ("Oprah" and "McDonalds") plus he is just plain wrong in at least one instance (while it is true that most adults who abuse their children were themselves abused, it is not true that all or even most of these adults inevitably go on to abuse their own children). I also disliked his double-standard with regard to fat: apparently it's o