Deborah Tannen is my current hero.

[nahamu]

That's Not What I Meant by Deborah Tannen is a book that I feel humans who communicate ought to read. Her book You Just Don't Understand is one that people who speak to the opposite sex ought to read

Comments

[chinchillama]

I remember using You Just Don't Understand for a paper and it was a great book filled with all kinds of useful bits, so I can only guess that one more general would be just as good.

2 Things

[thevortex]

1) Good quote I thought you would like: "The main reason I have no money, less than no money, is that I've spent it all on books. Sometimes I think I could sell the books, and then I'd have money. And then think of all the books I could buy!"

2) Sometimes people don't WANT to communicate. They don't want to know, or care, or otherwise. In a sense, that's the "rubber meets the road" challenge of such ideas, likewise of NLP.

Huzzah!

The Vortex

[uniquedc16]

ok, i added them to my "to-read" list, i'll have to track them down!