'Between a bottle of Epsom salts or one of twenty-year-old cognac, which would y
ou choose? Would you rather spend your vacation with an eighty-year old leper or
with Demi Moore? Do you prefer being sprinkled with ferocious red ants or shari
ng a sleeping compartment with Claudia Schiffer?' From the celebrated author of
The Name of the Rose, here is a dazzling compendium of advice offering the corre
ct answers to these and many other important questions. Tackling topics as diver
se as the coffee pot from hell, eating on an aeroplane, how not to use a cellula
r phone and recognising porn movies, Umberto Eco guides us with all his customar
y wit and brilliance through the complexities of the modern world.
