One Thousand Tips and Quips for Speakers and Toastmasters [Paperback]

Herbert V. Prochnow (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Baker Pub Group (June 1971)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0801068959
• ISBN-13: 978-0801068959
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.1 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,781,019 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars With trite and bland quotations, this book is outdated., October 21, 1999

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V. Sundar "Jimuta Vahana" (Bensalem, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: One Thousand Tips and Quips for Speakers and Toastmasters (Paperback)

Interestingly enough, I got this book as a gift. I don't expect great things from a compilation of quotations - a cull of "Reader's Digest" pabulum, in most cases. This one took the cake for being a compendium of 1940s almanacs and sentiments dear to Phyllis Schlafly.

I don't expect every quote book to hold some words from great thinkers from around the world, but this book is one-dimensional in its insular approach. This is the kind of book that shows how multiculturalism is needed.

And PS : how come Prochnow quotes himself and other people named Prochnow so much?

A throughly avoidable read.