How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships | Leil Lowndes

How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships | Leil Lowndes | Great Book - I Personally Learned Alot From This

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	How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships Leil Lowndes McGraw-Hill, 2003 - 368 pages average customer review:based on 75 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Fun, useful, and effective!

If you get only one book on this subject, this is the one. It is concise, clear, comprehensive and entertaining. What more can you ask for?

To sum it up -

"The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made."
~Jean Giraudoux (1882-1944)

Great Book - I Personally Learned Alot From This

This book does a good job of teaching interpersonal skills which will surely help no matter what you use it for - For work, for recreation, for socialising.

The title of the book is really self-explanatory - 'How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships'. If you want to improve your relationships, this book is highly recommended to you. Everyone can pick up something from this little book.

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Excellent book, but duplicates Talking The WInners Way

This is an excellent book with highly useable and very practical ideas expressed in a fun, readable style. Highly recommended UNLESS you have "Talking the Winners Way" by the same author. They are the same.

Good advice, clunky style

Most of the advice given in this book is sensible and useful, and contrary to the John Smith review above, it is not stuff that everyone learns when they're very young. Perhaps one or two of the 92 tricks might be better left untried, but discerning readers will spot them easily enough.

What you might not care for is what surrounds the advice. For example, the author keeps repeating that her book is aimed at a more "sophisticated" generation than Dale Carnegie's, which is hard to take seriously if you know anything at all about that period of history. And if we really are so much more sophisticated, why do we need these techniques explained to us in more detail, rather than less?

The humor can be irritating at times, and there's even a minor factual error: Cape Canaveral is referred to as Cape Kennedy. Yes, that last item is a shameless "gotcha", but it's a good example of what you have to look past in order to get the most benefit from this book.

Fortunately, since the 92 chapters are all very short, and each technique is summarized in its own little box, it's not difficult for a disciplined reader to ignore these problems, and focus on the essential information. All in all, quite helpful.

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Good techniques, lame writing

I received this book yesterday and have already made good progress in it--thus, it is a good, quick read. I am going to a big corporate shindig on Saturday, and wanted to brush up on my conversational skills. This book serves the purpose WELL. Lowndes gives good techniques, and explains them in such a way that they are easy to mimic. My only complaint (why it didn't get 5*) is that most of the "true stories" seem very contrived, and not true at all. The author tries to present "real life" situations as having actually happened, when the story is VERY transparent. The author could just as easily have said "imagine if..."

Overall, a good book, though. Worth the money.

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