Title: Completely Worthless
Product review: I guess just about *anyone* can get a book published nowadays. The author clearly has no understanding at all of rhetoric outside of her own personal experience of having been insulted-- which I imagine must happen quite often. Essentially the entire book is centered around providing canned responses to eight verbal attacks, and arranging them in an 'octagon'. Why this arrangement is preferable to any other, or what is to be gained by any sort of arrangement, remains unexplained. The one thing I do recommend in this book is the (presumably unintentional) humorous maternalistic tone that seeps through when the author writes about the protection that her fragile women need from strong, angry men... very funny indeed. If you really are looking for a book that will teach you something, rather than give quick and empty entertainment, try "Logical Self-Defense" by Johnson and Blair. I haven't finished it yet, but they are obviously on a whole different level than Elgin.
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