Review by Booklist Review
Glass is a communication specialist and image consultant who has shared her skills with many Hollywood stars and would-be stars. She defines toxic people as "tormentors that hurl negative verbal garbage that hurts us, scars us, and sometimes even immobilizes us." She describes 30 kinds of toxic people and even suggests how readers can prevent being toxic people themselves. Many psychologists recommend ignoring or closing the door on such past abuse, while Glass suggests 10 decisive antidotes. A resource that could prevent ever feeling like, "I wish I'd said . . ." well after a toxic person has planted their poisonous remarks. --Denise Perry Donavin
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Review by Publisher's Weekly Review
Certain people seem to exist to make us miserable. Glass, a California ``communications expert,'' terms these terrors Toxic People and identifies 30 types, some with humorous labels such as the Smiling Two-Faced Sneaky Back-Stabber and the Eddie Haskell. She provides a Toxic People Quiz to help readers identify which category a suspect toxic terror falls into and suggests 10 techniques to handle these folk: Humor, Direct Confront, Calm Questioning, Give-Them-Hell-and-Yell, Love and Kindness, Vicarious Fantasy, etc. And since we're all toxic, to some degree, a section on Toxic Comments and a Toxic Image Inventory are offered to help readers identify their own destructive behaviors. While the book doesn't rise above pop psychology, it is entertaining. Author tour. (May) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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