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Have you noticed that things aren’t as civil as they once were Or that rudeness is no longer an exception but a lifestyle Sure you have. All you need to do is set foot outside your door to see that bad manners are taking over everywhere. People are yakking on cell phones in restaurants, even at church. Folks in carpools wear enough cologne to make our eyes bleed. Complete strangers think it’s OK to rub a pregnant lady’s belly. Passengers abuse flight attendants, family outings to the ball park are ruined by rowdy drunks . . . a congressman heckled the President of the United States.
Well, Whoopi Goldberg has noticed all this and more and asked herself, “Is it just me” Unleashing her trademark irreverence and humor, her new book of observations takes a funny and excruciatingly honest look at how a loss of civility is messing with the quality of life for all of us.
So if your pet peeve is folks who talk in movie theaters like it was their living room, or if you get bugged by people clipping their nails and performing other personal hygiene next to you on the bus, or if you cringe when “please” and “thank you” get replaced by “gimme” and “huh” . . . you have found a kindred spirit. Because Whoopi has witnessed the growing disrespect and rudeness in our lives and realized she is not alone. And, as you’ll discover in these pages, neither are you.
- Sales Rank: #949890 in Books
- Published on: 2010-10-05
- Released on: 2010-10-05
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.25" h x .0" w x 5.50" l, .78 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 224 pages
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"Whoopi Goldberg takes on the decline of our country's civility."―USA Today
About the Author
Whoopi Goldberg is the author of the Sugar Plum Ballerinas books, as well as Whoopi's Big Book of Manners, illustrated by Olo. She has won a Tony, an Emmy, an Oscar, and a Grammy, as well as two Golden Globes. In 2001 she was awarded the prestigious Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Whoopi Goldberg has appeared in scores of films and is a host of ABC's The View. Whoopi Goldberg lives in New York and Vermont.
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86 of 93 people found the following review helpful.
With All Due Respect....
By Late2Serenity
This is the name of the last chapter of this book. This chapter consists of three lines. I'm going to quote them. You can read them without ruining the rest of the book for you if you haven't read the chapters that come before. They say:
"These were just things on my mind and some ideas of ways I could be better. Maybe it helps you too. If not, pass this book on!"
This book is Whoopi's opinion on a whole range of what she perceives to be irritations. She knows that she isn't alone in her irritation. She doesn't say that you're wrong if you disagree. She does use humor, she is irreverent, and she is also serious in ALL of it. She doesn't come across as perfect in her own conduct, in fact, she states more than once that she most definitely isn't. She finds those things irritating in other people and in herself. She does not deny that she is guilty of the same things that she is complaining about.
I am a big Whoopi fan, and I could hear her saying these things in my head while I was reading them. The language that she writes is the language that you hear coming out of her mouth every day on TV etc. Whoopi addresses issues that happen and that we don't seem to notice anymore because they have become so commonplace, they've become a habit. She talks about things like cutting your toenails or picking your nose on the bus or train on the way to work. She doesn't like the word 'stupid' and yet doesn't have a problem with people using certain swear words, and why. How you can swear at someone without actually using the words aloud, just thinking them can have an effect. Things you could consider saying when you've been put on the spot and don't want to hurt someone other people's feelings.
I really enjoyed reading this book. I did find myself chuckling at what she says, how she phrases things, and the irony in some of her statements. This book uses events in her life as examples, and it is not her memoirs. If you are buying this book expecting to read only her comedy, expecting to laugh aloud, you'll be disappointed. If you asked me to describe this book in two words, I would say "humorous" and "thoughtful".
17 of 18 people found the following review helpful.
A boring quickie book
By Turin
Lets get this out of the way: this is in no way a book written with "trademark irreverence and humor". Its written in a conversational tone. Its not somber. It isnt weighty. But there is no attempt at humor and I doubt Whoopie would have claimed there was one, so it surprising to hear the product description make that claim.
"Is It Just Me?" is one of those quickie books where the author jots down a bunch of disconnected thoughts which are eventually gathered up and massaged into book form by a hapless editor. Whoopie admits this in the forward- this book writing process was just writing down things that bugged her over the course of the year on note pads. These snippets where then assigned into 72 chapters like "There aren't enough jails", "If you dont like it dont do it", and "Places not to use a cell phone". Got the idea? You could probably fill in the contents of those chapters yourself.
No major crime there, but no the height of literary sophistication.
This book is sort of like going into a bar and having some bore who is already 6 drinks in sit down next to you and start filling you in on his critique about how the world is being run: there a great logical gaps in the narrative, a mild persecution complex, and a lot of unsubstantiated facts being loudly asserted.
Whoopie frequently make factual statements based only on her own opinions. There is never a citation of a news article, a statistic or a quote from an authority. The only buttressing arguments when these positions are staked out are "Come on!" "Lets gets real" or "we all know that....".
For instance, in the drunk driving chapter Whoopie claims that drunk driving goes on "Because there's no consequences". Her solution, which society needs to pick up on: "I tell you, if I had my own world? If you drank and drove, and got caught, you would not have a car". She advocates that you would not get your car back until you "had gone through a program and been clean and sober for 75 days".
This is the problem with her no-research way of book writing- the State she lives in already has more sever penalties that what she is recommending in her world. NYS requires a minimum 6mo-1 year license revocation depending on BAC and up to 1 year in jail. Taking away the car is ineffective without revoking the license. Did it never occur to her, in her "get tough approach", that most families have two cars?
There are also problems with the logical organization of her various snippets. For instance in the "Politics has Gotten #$!@5! Nasty" chapter she starts by railing against the incivility to current politicians essentially calling for a more polite society where we may disagree but in a civil way (BTW in this section she slips in "Tea Party people are taking their tea bagging to the streets" which kind of undermines the calm civility point that she was trying to go for). The logic problem comes in because she abruptly shifts to a discussing an incident she was involved in from 2004 at a Kerry fundraiser where she spoke. She had made a number of lewd and scatological references to President Bush's name and there was an outraged reaction from the general public and she got dropped from SlimFast and John Kerry disassociated himself from her. Whats bugging her here is not that she realizes that she herself was being uncivil but that "all of the newspapers said I said something terrible but never actually printed it. That drove me crazy" And she challenges the reader "Go ahead. I want you to see if you can find what I actually said. Here is a big hint: You wont see it." (another spot where a junior editor at Hyperion could have done some fact checking- it took me 30 seconds on google to find a detailed description of the event). So what bugging Whoopie her is that the newspaper reports at the time avoided printing direct quotes of an obscene rant but instead gave accurate but oblique descriptions. It would seem like the newspaper and the general public were the ones enforcing civility in political discourse and Whoopie was the one "getting @#$@$# nasty out there".
Yes these both nominally belong in the politics chapter, but didnt the editor care enough to realize Whoopie just undermined the point of the chapter?
There are numerous instants that make you think Whoopie is weirdly disconnected from society. For instance she says " Is it just me, or does it seem like there is no such thing as privacy anymore? Big Brother is here watching you. Except he is doing it through his blog instead of some science fiction telescreen". What?! How does someone what you through their blog? There is no further discussion of that point. It's like Whoopie has vaguely heard of blogs and knows they involve computers but that is all she knows. According to her, the problem with cell phone having cameras is that people could be taking pictures or videos of *her* anywhere she goes and that could be "taken out of context". Ok that maybe the overriding celebrity position on smart phones. But isnt she aware enough to realize that for the readers of her book 99.9% of their time is spent using phones to get shots at their children's school or sporting events? Trying to convince us that smart phones are bad because celebrities fret about them is unlikely to convince a reader who's never see a celebrity in the first place, let alone tapes them sloppily eating a cuban sandwich.
So in conclusion this is a not particularity funny book (dont think it was trying though)with a lot of factually inaccurate rants poorly organized. The upside is that the chapters are short and since they dont require any context you could easily read a couple while waiting for a bus or in a doctors office.
The only real market is as a gift for major Whoopie fans who might not be the greatest readers who can overlook the choppy nature of the material since they wont be reading a lot at one sitting. Maybe a slightly ditzy aunt with a mild persecution complex like Whoopie. The ideal reader would be one not bothered by logical or factual consistency and already a fan of the author.
Any future literary efforts would benefit from Whoopie and her editors not phoning in the whole project like they did with this one. More time, more fact checking, revise a few times, maybe develop a comedic voice and they would probably have a 3 or 3.5 star work.
36 of 44 people found the following review helpful.
I thought it would be funnier
By A. Carlson
I like Whoopi so I was looking forward to reading about the things we all can't stand (i.e. sharing cell phone conversations) with a dose of Whoopi humor. As one other reviewer wrote "I wanted to laugh". This book could have been so much better with some humor. In my opinion, she's preaching to the choir here. The people that read this book are those who probably have noticed the same things and the people who don't read it are the ones we are talking about so they'll never get it nor read her suggestions. It just could have been so much better.
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