The Modern Gentleman: A Guide to Essential Manners, Savvy and Vice

by Phineas Mollod and Jason Tesauro

Book Overview

This is a sourcebook of manners and mischief for the 21st-century male. It offers a panoramic snapshot of the gentleman: witty and poignant, traditional but spontaneous, flirtatious yet courting. It... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580084303
• ISBN13: 9781580084307
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Ten Speed Press
• Length: 341 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.2" x 7.1"

Customer Reviews

Fun read, lots to learn...

The Modern Gentleman is a fun book, and offers lots of info and insights. I learned how to behave in diners (loud fun is OK); how to behave in strip clubs (don't be crude); and the best ways to sneak in (and out of) parties without embarrassment. I found it refreshingly entertaining and definitely non-Metrosexual - a plus! It's well worth your 10 bucks, and offers lots of tips and short, well written essays on a wide variety of topics on male behavior.

Viva Le Gent Moderne!

This is the nightstand tome of choice for me. I read the reviews below and bought it because I'm a modern gent, not a perfect gent. Sure, the vice and prose might be a bit too advanced for most readers, but isn't that the idea...to stand out from the unremarkable masses? It's very funny--I mean laugh out loud funny--and yet there are also insights you'll not find anywhere else. Notes on jukeboxes, entrances & exits, condom etiquette, and ethically dating two women at once are indespensible. The lists of seminal jazz albums and first rate modern fiction are worth the price alone.I dog-earred my own paperback, but prefer the hardcover when gifting to pals...especially clever ladies. Unequivocally recommended.

not just for gentlemen

I originally purchased the book hoping to help my HOPELESS "beau du jour" who was desperately in need of manners and savvy . . . he had the vice part down, but let's not go into that. I was pleasantly surprised by it's content. This book is not only pertinent to young males in need of grooming, but to all individuals who wish to ameliorate their social skills. It contains a plethora of information on a myriad of subjects ranging from black-tie etiquette to survival in the wilderness (with panache). I especially liked the illustrations and the witty way the authors' wrote. It was so enjoyable to read - it was more like a novel than a book about manners. After I completed it, I dumped the guy. Phineas Mollod and Jason Tesauro raised the bar on my standards for men!

Essential read for essential manners, savvy and vice

If Jay Gatsby came back from the fictional grave, showed up at my doorstep and inquired as to how he should conduct himself in the modern world, I would direct him to Phineas Mollod and Jason Tesauro's guide to contemporary manhood, "The Modern Gentleman". Within its irresistable pages he would find everything he needed to know about surviving the age through witty and pragmatic advice on everything from e-mail etiquette, intra-office romance tips and acceptable sexual fetishes to recommended bumper sticker quantities and invaluable advice on wine selections, intoxicant indulgences and the use of profanity.There's a gentleman's reading list, a guide to courtship and marital bliss as well as tips on incorporating pornography into the healthy relationship. Even if you're not expecting a visit from old Gatsby this holiday season, I'd recommend "The Modern Gentleman" be added to your gift list for the recent post graduate or man in need of a little prudence. Mollod and Tesauro have penned a fun, noteworthy manual to be savored upon first read and referred to often.

Authors' writing style is absolutely engrossing

Behold the first "How-to" guide that you'll want to pick up as a nightly companion to traverse its witticisms about the heretofore neglected mores of everything from weddings, reunions, kinky sex, and ditching that heinous blind date, to the mechanics involved in priming that recalcitrant ketchup bottle at the diner when sharing a meal among friends. It's steady light doses of humor are mixed with big-hearted concern for the gentleman's partners and friends. Even the specific advice parts of the book are expert yet extremely practical for the uninitiated--the sections on classical music and wine-picking at restaurants are must-reads. Whether you read it for advice or just as an entertaining foray into the neglected quotidiae of modern American cultural history, you'll find yourself laughing and smirking. Very highly recommended!