Making People Talk

by Barry Farber

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688015913
• ISBN13: 9780688015916
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 263 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

interesting and worthwhile, the title says it all

As the title states, this is a book about making people talk. Barry Farber is a well known radio host who has interviewed some of the most important people in America and this book is his "self-help" book on how to make people talk. Like many other conversation books, this one is about (mostly) speaking to people you do not know very well. Farber takes a different approach to this and also talks about why you want to cultivate both friendships as well as casual relationships with many people. It is about what they can do for you. Farber explains that this is not a cold, callous way to look at it, because if you cultivate a relationship by talking, people will want to help you out if they are able (they may be able to help you get a job, give you advise, help with a promotion, get choice basketball tickets, etc). Farber also notes that some people who you initially are speaking with because of their potential value to you may become a better friend than those you have grown up with. Farber also writes that it is everyone who you should improving your communications with and making them feel that what they have to say is important. This book is written with many anecdotes from Barry Farber's life to illustrate the point he is making, and it was much more interesting than I expected. This is not a dry explanation on how to better make people talk, but an engaging book. Farber does not suggest that this will be easy, but only that it is worthwhile to be able to make people talk.