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Title: I'll be Honest - I haven't read it
Review: I haven't read this book, just read the magazine and reader reviews, but the idea of a book that tells us to replace honest communication of facts and feelings with vapid pleasantries is sickening. If your friend is pregnant and doesn't want to be, why *shouldn't* you say "You can still do something about it"?!! Don't tell her it's "wonderful" - it's not, and you both know it. If someone asks you "How are you?" and you tell them "terrible" instead of lying with "Just fine, thanks," then it's their fault for asking! If they weren't prepared for an answer, they should have ignored you - that's what they want to do anyway. I'm 20 years old and maybe too idealistic. Maybe I'll slip into the same rut of self-delusion and public acting that most adults are in. But for now I can say with perfect honesty: Miss Manner's idea of "communication" is sickening!
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