Why didn't I say that?: The art of verbal self-defense

By Donald Carroll

Book Overview

Book by Carroll, Donald This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0531099237
• ISBN13: 9780531099230
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: Franklin Watts
• Length: 141 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.

Customer Reviews

This book deserves to be reprinted again and again

Perfect idea, perfect execution - give readers a list of possible responses when confronted with a bore, a nag or other verbal bully. In short, as the author himself describes it, this is a guide to the "art of verbal self-defense". Designed for everyone who figures out what they SHOULD have said only AFTER a painful confrontation is long over, this book preps the reader so that the next time around the balance may shift. Some of the responses are admittedly mean, off-putting or sarcastic - but then, if osmeone is equally offensive, perhaps a dose of the same medicine isn't always a bad idea. This is a classic. Not for every reader, however...just the ones who don't like being verbally bullied.