Great title for a book that reflects on manners, and a breezy and often funny style to recount heaps of anecdotes. But I found the hodgepodge of advice and wisecracks in Would It Kill You to Stop Doing That: A Modern Guide to Manners
wearying, as the advice is often silly (be sure not to mistake customers as store clerks — really? This cannot be a large problem in manners today?) and the stories not always funny (the Agony Aunt interventions he recalls at the end are entirely forgettable: setting up playdates at the farmers’ market should not require professional assistance, methinks) Very funny stories of parties, though!
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