Wake Up and Smell the Coffee!:: Advice, Wisdom, and Uncommon Good Sense [Illustrated] [Hardcover]

Ann Landers (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 9, 1996

In her first collection in more than a decade, the most trusted woman in North American shares her wisdom and sage advice. Ann Landers reprises the counsel and anecdotes that make her column such a popular newspaper feature, providing timeless yet amazingly contemporary questions and answers on topics from care of elderly parents to homosexuality to AIDS. She also includes many of the beloved essays and aphorisms that make her columns so heartwarming and memorable. Illustrations.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Advice columnist Landers offers a survey of her most memorable columns complete with a selection of poems, essays, etc.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist

Dear Ann Landers: What's a reviewer to do? With so many books to read, and so many books for libraries to consider buying, do we really want to spend time looking over a compilation of your old columns? There's not exactly anything here to review (although the book's organization isn't great). On the other hand, once you start reading these letters from infidels, addicts, in-law haters, nuts, nerds, and people who want to know the right way to roll toilet paper, it's awfully hard to stop. Kind of like eating candy. Shall I keep reading your book, or move on to something more substantial, like the new Oxford Book of Religion? All Booked Up (aka Ilene Cooper).

Dear Booked: Kwityerbitchin, it could be worse. You could be reading a compilation of letters written to my sister, Abigail Van Buren. Of course libraries will want this book, it has answers, aphorisms, and those heartwarming lists and poems your mother keeps on the refrigerator. By the way, the toilet-paper issue is still up for grabs. Ilene Cooper

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 419 pages
• Publisher: Villard; 1 edition (April 9, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0679445390
• ISBN-13: 978-0679445395
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.4 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,764,737 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Buy this book!, January 13, 2000

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Mary & Bobby (WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wake Up And Smell The Coffee: Advice, Wisdom, and Uncommon Good Sense (Paperback)

I admit it...I go straight for the Ann Landers column in the paper before anything else. This book is great to have around because you can enjoy Ann's column anytime you want. All the classics are in here too: Poems, tear-jerkers, and laughs galore. Every kind of ailment and family squabble is commented on. Better than the Springer show. ha ha

I loaned my copy to my retiree parents. They made the book last by reading one printed column a day. I couldn't be that patient. I liked it so much, I couldn't put it down and felt compelled to write notes in the side margins! I've never done THAT before or since buying this book.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Good Book... Ann Landers Was Awesome, February 8, 2003

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Manatee Girl #1 (Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wake Up And Smell The Coffee: Advice, Wisdom, and Uncommon Good Sense (Paperback)

I'm such a huge fan of Ann Landers! I read this book after her death, actually, but she continues to inspire me. A while before she died I started to cut out her newspaper columns and store them... But reading a book of them is better!
Very funny and extremely weird in some parts, and sad or gross or touching in others. I recommend it. It's entertainment!
As always, Ms. Landers gives her brilliant advice... And even if you don't always agree with what she says, it'll get you thinking. And that's something, isn't it?