The Second Update: A Semi-Coherent Review

I loved the ranting parts of this book...all the anecdotes and examples of the bloody rudeness that permeates our day and age...because you just don't feel quite so alone or silly or possibly mistaken knowing others feel the same. The rants are the strength of this book but the weaknesses are when Truss tries to explain the lack of civility. She completely lost me when she wrote that "modern people are impatient with the bad-good distinctions; they consider it intellectually primitive" because I would consider this condescending attitude toward morality to be one of the main reasons civility is on the decline. I also found it quite surprising that she doesn't bring up religion. So I think the parameters for her book should have been restrained. If she wasn't going to seriously and thoroughly look at or outline the underlying reasons for why the world is so rude today, she shouldn't have brought this aspect up. The book could have been one long rant and leaving it at that it would have been perfect. One doesn't have to offer up explanations or solutions.