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  <title><![CDATA[How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&quot;You'll not only break the ice, you'll melt it away with your new skills.&quot;&lt;/i&gt; -- Larry King&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&quot;The lost art of verbal communication may be revitalized by Leil Lowndes.&quot;&lt;/i&gt; -- Harvey McKay, author of &lt;i&gt;&amp;#8220;How to Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive&amp;#8221;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;What is that magic quality makes some people instantly loved and respected?  Everyone wants to be their friend (or, if single, their lover!) In business, they rise swiftly to the top of the corporate ladder. What is their &quot;Midas touch?&quot;&lt;/p&gt; 	&lt;p&gt;What it boils down to is a more skillful way of dealing with people.&lt;/p&gt; 	&lt;p&gt;The author has spent her career teaching people how to communicate for success. In her book &lt;i&gt;How to Talk to Anyone&lt;/i&gt; (Contemporary Books, October 2003) Lowndes offers 92 easy and effective sure-fire success techniques-- she takes the reader from first meeting all the way up to sophisticated techniques used by the big winners in life. In this information-packed book you&amp;#8217;ll find:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;9 ways to make a dynamite first impression&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;14 ways to master small talk, &quot;big talk,&quot; and body language&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;14 ways to walk and talk like a VIP or celebrity&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;6 ways to sound like an insider in any crowd&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;7 ways to establish deep subliminal rapport with anyone&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;9 ways to feed someone's ego (and know when NOT to!)&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;11 ways to make your phone a powerful communications tool&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;15 ways to work a party like a politician works a room&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;7 ways to talk with tigers and not get eaten alive &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p&gt;In her trademark entertaining and straight-shooting style, Leil gives the techniques catchy names so you'll remember them when you really need them, including: &quot;Rubberneck the Room,&quot; &quot;Be a Copyclass,&quot; &quot;Come Hither Hands,&quot; &amp;#8220;Bare Their Hot Button,&amp;#8221; &amp;#8220;The Great Scorecard in the Sky,&quot; and &quot;Play the Tombstone Game,&amp;#8221; for big success in your social life, romance, and business.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;How to Talk to Anyone&lt;/i&gt;, which is an update of her popular book, &lt;i&gt;Talking the Winner's Way&lt;/i&gt; (see the 5-star reviews of the latter)is based on solid research about techniques that work!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;By the way, don't confuse &lt;i&gt;How to Talk to Anyone&lt;/i&gt; with one of Leil's previous books, &lt;i&gt;How to Talk to Anybody About Anything&lt;/i&gt;. This one is completely different!&lt;/p&gt;</default_description>
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      <name><![CDATA[Leil Lowndes]]></name>
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  <date_added>Sun Dec 21 21:12:31 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[The woman who wrote this may have social skills, but she is also an idiot. The book is unfortunately so shoddily and offensively written, I often found myself needing to take breathers between chapters. At least 150 pages of this tome needn't exist. Like a true conversationalist, Landes makes sure e...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40646780">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Oct 19 22:08:23 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't generally go for self-help books. I find that most of them couch painfully common sense in media-ready sound bytes, and it pains me in return to spend money on them. But this one caught my eye, and flipping through it, kept it, so I gave in to the urge (needed something light and fluffy afte...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75094867">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="22369095">
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  <date_added>Fri May 16 09:03:42 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This lady probably has some good social skills herself, but she's a god damn idiot.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Sep 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I bought this book before starting my final year in college in order to improve my presentation skills.  It didnt really meet that criteria but nonetheless I found it interesting.  Sure more than a few of the 92 tips are blindingly obvious and could easily remain unsaid, but the witty anecdotes were...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72272949">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="1399199">
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  <read_at>Thu Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A good read if you're feeling antisocial. ]]></body>
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    <review id="64036325">
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  <read_at>Sun Jun 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Well, first of all I actually went out and bought this book. <br/>And although I say I only liked it I did learn a few things from it because Leil gives little tips that are easy to remember. <br/>Some of it though was just completely pointless to me because I don't really have a briefcase and din...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64036325">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="69135902">
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  <read_at>Wed Sep 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Sep 03 16:14:31 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The book is divided into sections, right from how to make a good first impression to getting to being an insider in any crowd. From there, each section is divided into short 2 / 3 page chapters making it very easy to follow. The order of the book is also very logical.<br/><br/>Tips are easy to fol...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69135902">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="62912037">
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  <read_at>Fri Jul 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Jul 10 09:06:23 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[There are some pretty good tips in this book that I an going to try to put to use. For example, use a &quot;slow smile&quot;, start sentences with &quot;you&quot; instead of &quot;I&quot;, and not using idioms. However, I found myself not wanting to read the chapters and only wanting to read the tip...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62912037">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <name><![CDATA[Sra]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed May 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed May 06 10:11:51 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Lots of helpful tips on being successful in all your relationships. I feel like I need to study this book, since most of the tips are not natural to me, though they do make sense when you read them. The information in the book is a little repetitive and could be condensed, but the content is good.]]></body>
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  <date_added>Thu Feb 12 20:09:52 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Feb 12 20:13:42 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am reading this for the purpose of improving my ability to relate to various types of people at work, but I really would rather be reading than relating. Ha, ha, ha! Really, it offers helpful suggestions, short chapters, and you can put it down and return at will without missing a beat. ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jun 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A powerful self-improvement book that presents many step-by-step suggestions how a person can improve their socialization skills.<br/>This is more than just a how-to-do-it book.<br/>Lowndes provides excellent justification for why certain approaches are successful or not.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have to blame this book on my mom. When she has time to read, she usually reads these types of books, business books that are meant to make you more valuable to your job, when my mom is already irreplacable at her job.<br/><br/>My favorite part about this is that I'm slightly embarrassed about r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44416306">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="506397">
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  <read_at>Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The book contains 92 little tricks mainly about the nuances that subconsciously evoke people into engaging conversation, and you just need to practice a few in a real life setting to realise that hey, it actually works. A lot of stuff here you might not have known about but is excellent to know. Sho...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/506397">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="32213884">
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    <body><![CDATA[I think with self-help books you buy it because you want it to change you in some way. So then you have high hopes for it to work. But a book cant actually change you. You change you, it can change your thinking but unless you like worship it or something it doesnt stay with you.<br/><br/>I think ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32213884">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="8561145">
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    <body><![CDATA[The emphasis on what anyone wants in communications is eye-opening. However, while extremely enlightening in laying out what others want, the author made no attempt to elaborate on when to stop a trick and start asking for/getting what YOU want. Therefore, burnout could be a limiting factor in emplo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8561145">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a pretty decent book. The best of it's kind that I've read...well the only of it's kind that I've read...But I've found some of the techniques in it really work if I can just get myself to remember to do them. However it's impossible to remember everything I read. I wish there was a minimize...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8726122">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book reads like a manual.  Basically, you can open it up to any page and find a clever tip on interpersonal communication.  That's how it caught my attention.<br/><br/>The writing style can get a little tiring if you read it front to back, but I would still recommend this book to anyone.  Wor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35285533">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[extremely awesome book ! ]]></body>
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