How to Talk to Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere: The Secrets of Good Communication by Larry King

How to Talk to Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere: The Secrets of Good Communication Reviews

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  أميــــرة

  ربما يكون كتابا للتنمية الذاتية، ولكننا نظلمه إذا ساويناه بأمثاله!
  
  يركز الكتاب على هدفين أساسيين:
  الأول : كيف تصبح متحدث جيد، وفي هذا الصدد إليكم ما استخلصته
  - تحلّى بروح الدعابة
  - استمع للآخرين بإهتمام حقيقي
  - تحدث بـ "شغف" وحب حقيقي عما تتناوله من موضوعات، فما أسهل إدراك المتحدث المصطنع الذي يعتنق أفكارًا ليس مقتنع بها تمامًا.
  - كن صريحًا وصادقًا
  - حدّث الآخرين فيم هم خبراء فيه، ويمثل محور إهتمام لهم
  
  الهدف الثاني : كيف تُلقي خطابا جيدا ؟
  لا شك أننا نرى جميعًا افتقار المشاهير حولنا القدرة الخطابية الجيدة، ونادرًا ما تعلق بأذهاننا كلمة ألقاها شخص ما، وتلخيصًا لما فهمته:
  
  - تحلّى بروح الدعابة دون أن تقحمها
  - كن بسيطا، فلا داع لإستخدام المصطلحات المربكة.
  - فاجئ مستمعيك لكي تجذب انتباههم بموقفك غير المتوقع تجاه شئ أو قضية محل نقاش!
  - الإيجاز، واعلم أن اختصار موضوع تعرف الكثير عنه لتقوله في عشر دقائق أصعب بكثير من الإطالة! ولا يمتلك كل الأشخاص القدرة على إيصال أفكارهم بطريقة موجزة، غير مملة، وصوب الهدف مباشرةً.
  - كن صريحًا واعتمد على فطرتك، ودع التكلف جانبا.
  - اهتم بنبرة صوتك، ولا تسير على وتيرة واحدة حتى لا تدفع مستمعيك للملل
  
  
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  Mariam

  In How to Talk to Larry Talks to Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere , you’ll learn about how Larry talks to his rich friends, politicians, and celebrities:

  My awesome self with this awesome person at this awesome place, and this awesome conversation we had.. and blah blah blah… aren’t we just so famous and so superb with our impeccable conversations?

  This is not a book about “Secrets” and definitely not on “Good Communication.” This is about Larry King, his story, his friends, and what amazing conversationalists they all are. Unfortunately, Larry is boring and so is the book.
  
  Unless you are an alien with no idea about how to socialize or talk to people, save your time and money. I’m still bitter I spent AED60 on this useless book.
  
  I recommend
  How to Win Friends and Influence People instead.
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  Rinchen

  KNOWLEDGE I GAINED FROM THIS BOOK:
  • Most of us have the fear of saying the wrong thing while speaking and so avoid talking overall. This fear is described beautifully in this quote, "It is better to remain silent and be presumed a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt."
  • The basics of successful conversation:
  ○ Honesty
  ○ The right attitude
  § The will to talk even when it might be uncomfortable.
  § The will to improve your talking ability and the will to work hard at it.
  ○ Interest in the other person
  ○ Openness about yourself
  § The golden rule - Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
  § You should be willing to reveal the kind of information that you would ask of another person.
  • People you're talking to will enjoy the conversation more if they see you are presenting yourself as someone who is enjoying it.
  • It will help you to overcome shyness when talking to strangers if you remember that the person you're talking to is probably just as shy as you are.
  • Breaking the ice with someone you are talking for the first time: get them on comfortable ground. Ask them about themselves. That will give you something to talk about and also people love to be talked to about themselves.
  • It is the thing that are closest to a person that make them open up the most.
  • Remember that the people you are talking to are more interested in themselves and their wants and problems than they are in you and your problems.
  • If you're at a party in someone's home, or an office, there are likely to be furnishings or mementos that your hosts will cheerfully talk about.
  • Avoid yes/no questions. One tip is to ask questions using "what do you think?"
  • LISTEN! Careful listening makes you better able to respond. Good follow-up questions are the mark of a good conversationalist.
  • You can lean slightly forward toward the person you are speaking to, to emphasize that you are focusing on them.
  • You don't need to stare continuously in the other person's eyes. Many find that uncomfortable. Maintain eye contact when your conversation partner is talking and when you are asking a question. If you're speaking, you can take your eyes off your partner occasionally. However, don’t stare off into space. And if you're at a party, don't let your eyes wander over your partner's shoulder as if you're looking for someone more important to talk to.
  • Stay informed and Stay current! This will help a lot because you have to relate what you're talking about to the interests of the person you're talking to. Today, the key word in being successful in your social conversation is RELEVENCE.
  • In cocktail parties, look for someone to have a one-on-one conversation with. Or else, join others in conversations already under way that sound interesting. If the other person is not interested in the subjects that interest you, excuse yourself politely. Then move on. There's bound to be someone else in the room who's more fun for you to talk to. One trick is not to get caught in the same place for a long period of time.
  • WHY!!! It is the greatest question to ask and it is the surest way of keeping a conversation lively and interesting.
  • Good Exit lines:
  ○ "This food is delicious. I'm going to go help myself to seconds."
  ○ "Would you excuse me? I'm going to go say hello to our host." (or to a friend)
  ○ "Well, I guess I'd better go and mingle some more."
  ○ It is important not to make too much of your exit. Don’t spend the minute beforehand glancing around the room desperately or be too apologetic. Just wait for a slight pause, say something polite, and move on as if it's a natural thing to do. Simply saying "It was nice talking to you" and turning away can be graceful enough, as long as you sound as though you actually did enjoy the conversation.
  • If you are leading a conversation:
  ○ choose a topic that will involve everybody.
  ○ Solicit opinions: Don’t just offer your opinions. You'll be remembered as a better conversationalist if you ask the opinions of others around you. (What do you think?)
  ○ Help the shyest person in the group.
  ○ Don’t monopolize the conversation: Keep your own stories brief! The other extreme is just as bad - being so short on words that people think either you're not bright enough to say much or you're an unfriendly person.
  ○ WHAT IF questions are a can't miss way of starting a conversation in a social setting or picking it up during a lull.
  ○ Allow people to sit close together. If you're having four people for dinner, don't use your grandmother's gigantic table that seats twelve. Lol
  • At funerals, comments such as, "This is such a tragedy" or "It's a terrible loss" imply that the level of their grief is yours to gauge, which it's not. One thing you can do is share a favorite memory of yours involving the deceased.
  • Celebrities enjoy normal conversations. Approach them not as famous people but just as people who have the same likes, dislikes and feelings like the rest of us. If you happen to know about the celebrity's extracurricular interest, you might find they will speak to you about it much more freely than they would about their professional life.
  • Most successful people are successful talkers.
  • Never stay too serious too long.
  • HUMOR:
  ○ Professional comedians know that timing is everything, and bringing everything to a halt so that you can tell your joke is bad timing. Even if you heard a hilarious joke at the office, don't interrupt a conversation in progress just so you can tell it.
  ○ Never introduce humor with any of these lines:
  § "Let me tell you a little joke."
  § "A funny thing happened to me on my way here today."
  § "Here's a good joke. You're going to love it. It's really funny."
  § "This reminds me of a little joke."
  • NOTHING WORDS:
  ○ Words and noises that add nothing to what we are trying to say. Acts as oral crutches.
  ○ Example: you know, basically, hopefully, whatever, like, uh and um.
  ○ Hopefully doesn't mean I hope; when you say, "Hopefully, the meeting will be held Thursday," you're really saying the meeting will be held Thursday in an atmosphere of hope.
  ○ Leave the nothing words out of your conversations.
  • If you are worried about political correctness, if what you are going to say seems safe, then go along.
  • Business basics:
  ○ Time is money so don't waste the time of the people you are talking to. Don’t talk about the last night's ball game until the end of your one-on-one lunch and then try to cram the real purpose of the meeting into a hurried 5 minute discussion. And don't try to be the life of the meeting with a long monologue when everybody else is anxious to get down to business.
  ○ Know what you're talking about, and be prepared. Remember also what the other person wants and needs to know.
  • Art of Selling:
  ○ Two rules of sales: Know what you're selling; and once you've closed the deal - don't keep selling.
  ○ Sell the advantage of the product, not the features of the product. Example: Don’t talk about the premiums and payouts of the insurance policy. Talk about the security your client will feel and about the gratitude of his or her spouse and children in knowing that the cornerstone of their financial future is in place.
  ○ Selling yourself:
  § Show prospective employers what you can do for them.
  □ What do you bring that’s unique.
  □ Don’t tell the person interviewing you what's on your resume, which they've already read. Tell them instead how you are going to do this job better than anyone else will.
  § Maintain an open attitude.
  □ Don’t be so businesslike demeanor that you stifle your openness.
  § Be prepared.
  § Ask questions.
  □ Ask intelligent questions; this will show that you are prepared and you care.
  □ Don’t make it appear that you're more interested in your own clever questions than you are in hearing and reacting to the responses.
  • Approach your boss in an open manner using the two word "Help me."
  • Tips from getting information from famous people: If what you need from someone is simple information, talk to that person's assistant first. The assistance can often pull a file or make an appointment quicker than the boss. Why leave a message for the boss to call you back when you are asking questions that the boss can refer to the assistant? Asking the assistant saves all three of you some time and gets you the information earlier in your day.
  • In a meeting, if you're not involved in a topic under discussion, avoid the temptation to jump into the conversation just for the sake of being noticed. It's much better to have a reputation as someone who talks only when it counts than to be known as someone who has to put in his two cents' worth on every subject.
  • When you are running a meeting:
  ○ Start on time.
  ○ Be decisive.
  § You've established what the issues are. The last two questions for each item are: What action is to be taken, and who's going to do it? If you leave this vague, there was no point in having the meeting in the first place.
  ○ Be firm.
  § Don’t let others waste time or try to score points on each other. Just say, "Sorry, Pete - we have to move on to the next item." There is no reason for you to be afraid of seeming bossy.
  • Ways of getting out of answering a question:
  ○ "It would be premature for me to answer that question now."
  ○ "I'm not able to answer that question because I haven't seen the report yet."
  ○ "The incident has become the subject of a court case, so I can't comment on it."
  • One bad answer for news interview is "No comment." It might imply you are guilty.
  • Know your audience!
  
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  Jen

  It is just one secret, really: suspenders.
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  J. Aleksandr Wootton

  "This book could have been an essay!" And yet it was still fun to read: King's advice isn't groundbreaking (listen with genuine interest and curiosity; get the other person talking about their passion before asking them what you really want to know), but it's illustrated with bits from his bio and backstage stories from his show and interviewees. There's a page and a half that haven't aged well at all where King expresses admiration for Andrew Cuomo, a young man at the time and apparently quite a good conversationalist. I guess it just goes to show ...as they say. A fair read but one of those books du jour that have had their day.
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  Royston

  This is not a good self-help book, contrary to what it's title suggests. Larry King takes his experience in radio and tv presentation, derives lessons that he himself learnt from them and presents them to the reader. As a result, "How-tos" are not presented in a very clear chronological way but rather a-la Aesop's fables. It's got a stronger bent towards how to do public speaking , be it speaking to large crowds or on tv/radio because that's where his experience lies. For the layman, it honestly isn't very useful, I wouldn't even read it as a basic first book to a whole string of communication books that you might start on. And there's a whole chapter dedicated to the worst guests on his talk shows and why. I mean, what the hell was that for? If I wasn't so bored as to read this on a 3 hr plane ride, I wonder whether I would have had the strength to complete this.
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  Igor Guzun

  Este o carte scrisă cu umor şi înţelepciune. Ca să netezească drumul spre succesul care, cum spune acest celebru moderator de televiziune şi radio Larry King, „este pavat cu discuţii”. Cu sfaturi şi exemple din viaţă, cu reguli precum ascultă, fii atent la limbajul trupului, la contactul vizual, la decor şi cele 8 lucruri pe care aşii conversaţiei le au în comun. „Majoritatea oamenilor de succes sunt vorbitori excelenţi. Să nu vă mire, reciproca este şi ea adevărată”, spune autorii talk-show-ului „Lary King Live”. „Oameni de succes care nu se pot exprima? Nu-mi vine în minte nici măcar unul. Zero”.
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  Sama Barghouthi

  كتاب مفيد لتنمية القدرة على اجراء حوارات في مواقف مختلفة في حياتنا وإلقاء خطابات ، لغته سلسة وأسلوب الكاتب ممتع . لا يأخذ وقتاً في قراءته ويضيف معلومات مهمة . لو أردت تلخيصه بجملة ( أفضل أسلوب لاجراء أي حديث التزام الصدق).
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  Mustafa Nuwaidri

  
  لاري كنغ المذيع الذي قضى اغلب حياته في ادارة الحوارات والحديث ..
  جاء في هذا الكتاب ليقدم خبرته في فن التحدث والاتصال الذي نحتاجه جميعنا
  كتاب قيم وفيه الكثير من الفوائد
  
  لاشك ان للمذيع الكاتب ذا خبرة كبيرة ،
  لكني كنت أتمنى أن يكون الكتاب يحتوي جهد أكبر في تنظيم الافكار
  
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  Ahmed Fatthey Ahmed

  خلّصته وكنت فاكره هيبقا الكتاب العاشر وهانجح في التشالنج لأول مرة لكن طلع التاسع عشان في كتاب اتحسب مرتين فكده هاضطر أستنى للسنة الجاية لو لينا عمر عشان أقفّل التشالنج😢
  
  المهم الكتاب ده دمه خفيف وفيه نصايح حلوة وقصص مُسلّية، وأنا اشتريته بس عشان أنا باحب لاري كينج من أيام ما كان برنامجه بيتعرض
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  Migelle Dominic

  Larrry King is a classic spokes-person and I chose his book, "How to Talk to Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere: The Secrets of Good Communication" to enhance my social skills and have it benefit me at all times. Ever since 1st grade, I've been reluctant to speak up, I was diagnosed with glossophobia until I was 11 in 5th grade. I was afraid of talking in class, or anyone in general, and that I always had trouble ending a conversation. I've learned how to stand up for myself over the years and ended my phobia, but I chose this book because after 5 years of silence, I tend to be rusty in communicating and this book taught me how to a better talker, literally. It's about steps and guides to be able to socialize with anyone in different scenarios. Whether it's at a party, a game, a date, or an interview. As humans, we are social creatures, and being able to socialize is how we communicate to each other. Communication is knowledge, and it is very important to realize there would be no point of having a brain without having information in it. "Telling people what your background is, what your likes and dislikes are, is part of the give and take of conversation. it's how we get to know people." I lacked in friends ever since I had glossophobia, I was a stranger to most people, this quote taught me that I shouldn't be afraid of sharing my secrets, because having a person to trust with secrets could lead to a bigger bond in friendship. It can be risky, but that's the price to pay to befriend with people close to you that were once strangers. Larry King was very humorous in his writing of the story, but he was also made a lot of sense in his theories that makes a person a better talker. A skill that all of us are gifted at. This book is very knowledgeable, I would recommend this to someone like me, who has a fear of talking, or even worse.
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  Cinky

  This book is getting a lot of underserved hate. I agree that the book won't teach you how to immediately become a perfect communicator like Larry King, but at the same time I don't think it was the purpose of the book in the first place anyway.
  
  Although it's not a step by step detailed manual to communication it provides many useful tips and tricks which can be used in a huge variety of social interactions. All that based mostly on Larry's personal stories, experiences, interactions and observations of other successful talkers he hosted in his talkshows.
  
  Therefore my final conclusion is: No. You probably won't become better talker instantly after finishing this book. What you will become is more confident in social interactions and more eager to join interactions you normally wouldn't. As to every other skill, communication is also about practice. So just work on it and Larry's book will deffinitely pay off.
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  WhizKid

  
  
  Remember this: 1. If you feel you're not good at it, you can be. 2. If you feel you are good at it, you can be better
  
  It's an attitude about talk. Talk should not be a challenge,a grim obligation, or a way of filing up time. Talk is mankind's greatest invention, it's how we make connections among us, and one of the pleasures that life has to offer. Think of every conversation as an opportunity.
  
  
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  علا

  Larry King obviously knows what he's talking about. At no point of this book did I feel bored or that he was repeating himself, and for a book about talking and the art of conversing, this is the perfect testimony to its success. I found the book very useful, and the advice it offered was practical and straight forward, although my first thought was that reading a book on how to talk to people is kind of pathetic, but that was an oversimplification. It's a book on how to hold a conversation and how to connect to people, in social life, in business, in the media, etc. And the biggest takeaway, as Larry himself sums is up at the conclusion of the book, is that talking should not be dealt with as an obligation but rather as a pleasure, an opportunity, which I think we now need more than ever at this time and age where we're constantly talking even when we're alone frantically typing on our phones, and when we feel that we're losing touch with certain people, with whom we have less and less in common, so it's useful to remember that talking is actually a way to connect with another human being, we just have to be willing to try.
  
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  Darlington30

  **Audio version reviewed**
  
  Oh Larry King, you can talk to me anytime and anywhere. This silver-tongued devil's voice is smooth as silk. He could make anything sound great, which is why this audio book version is not as bad as it should be. It's really just 90 minutes of Larry King from the early 90's speaking off the cuff about speaking. There's no real system or organization to his method - - or any method at all. Don't count on getting more than only a few pointers.
  
  Loved these conversation starter gems: "How about that Nancy Kerrigan!" and "Everyone has an opinion about the Menendez trial verdict. What's yours?"
  
  Anyway, "How to Talk to Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere" is a short and muddled manifesto from a master at the top of his game.
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  Viktor Zakharchenko

  Хорошая, хотя и слегка поверхностная книга о том, как взрастить в себе человека, держащего под контролем свою речь. Хорошая, потому что написана призннанным авторитетом (из книги вы узнаете настоящую фамилию еврейского мальчика Ларри и историю появления "королевского" псевдонима) и изобилует большим количеством историй из жизни. Поверхностная, потому что Ларри описывает свой путь, а далеко не каждый может оказаться в его условиях и получить такую же практику. В общем, книга больше про самого Кинга, хотя ряд полезных советов в ней все же можно найти.
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  bookaholic_kim

  The title should be ,"Larry King and his ways on how to talk to anyone"
  
  The title is misleading, i thought i would be able to get some points from this book but i can hardly relate to it. Not everyone is a radio host and goes to business meetings or have friends that are businessmen. This is all about him and his job and experiences.
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  Iryna Dergachova

  эта книга есть во всех топах и мастридах, но как-то не впечатлила, ничего особого, почитайте лучше Гандапаса
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  Dmitry

  (The English review is placed beneath the Russian one)
  
  Я думаю, что это одна из тех немногих книг, которая обычно не переводится на другие языки, т.к. ценность её заключается в личности человека написавшего её. Т.е. это как если бы похожую книгу написал в России Леонид Парфёнов. В России он известен многим людям, но вот в мире о нём не так много людей и знает. В случаи с этой книги автором является знаменитый на всю Америку журналист или если быть точнее, интервьюер. Я думаю, это главная причина недовольства книгой, ведь в США многие люди покупали эту книгу не из-за того, что они ожидали научиться «говорить с кем угодно и о чём угодно», а главным образом, что бы узнать о самом Ларри Кинге. И только во вторую очередь узнать что-то непосредственно связанное с искусством общения. Так как я часто читаю англоязычные книги, которые, скорее всего, никогда не будут переведены на русский язык, я часто встречаю подобные книги. Суть их одна: если вы не знаете, чем живёт Америка, то такая книга вас не заинтересует. Кстати, для чтения таких вот книг, вовсе не обязательно быть гражданином США или жить там, но достаточно смотреть или слушать или читать новости о происходящих в США событиях. Разумеется, на английском языке, благо Интернет это позволяет.
  Книга частично автобиографическая, а частично чем-то напоминающая книги Карнеги. Но биографии автора в книге всё же больше. Поэтому с одной стороны, автор предлагает вполне дельные советы в стиле Карнеги, однако их очень и очень мало. Можно даже сказать, что у этой, и так небольшой книги, мне понравилась только первая её часть. Но даже и она не предлагает что-то радикально новое или делает это в какой-то особо интересной форме. К примеру, совет искренне интересоваться человеком, с которым беседуешь, не кажется особо революционным. Да и преподносится он совершенно обычно. Сохранять зрительный контакт - тоже как-то не нов. Однако мне понравился способ подборки тем. Автор пишет, что для начала разговора всегда можно найти тему (благо, опять же, Интернет позволяет) используя последние новости или какие-то предметы в помещении, в котором вы находитесь. Т.е. если на стене висят трофеи, то можно начать разговор об их истории, а если вы обнаружите интересную фотографию, то вот ещё один прекрасный способ «растопить лёд», так сказать. Но лично мне понравился и запомнился момент в книге, когда автор пишет о способе выбора партнёра для общения. Т.е. если вы интересуетесь инвестиционной деятельностью, то всегда можно попробовать начать разговор с новости на эту тему и в случаи, если собеседник ответит что-то типа «Я совсем не разбираюсь в этом», это будет яркий сигнал к тому, что можно не тратить время и силы и поискать кого-то другого для общения (речь идёт о вечеринке или о приёме, где много народу и приходится общаться). Т.е. суть в том, чтобы найти подходящего для вас собеседника, с которым разговор будет происходить без особых усилий и без говорящих пауз.
  Довольно забавный эпизод, связанный с переговорами, но для меня это просто забавная история и ничего больше.
  В общем, плюсом этой книги является её крайне небольшой размер, лёгкость текста, развлекательность и личность самого Ларри Кинга. Надеяться научиться говорить с кем угодно, о чём угодно с помощью этой книги, как по мне, довольно наивно. Эта книга напоминает большую статью из глянцевого журнала, даже если это серьёзный журнал типа Форбс (хотя, я не уверен на 100%, что в нём могли бы опубликовать такие вот автобиографические истории, но суть не в этом, а в том, что книга очень сильно мне напоминает толстые журналы). Или это тот тип литературы, который находится между книгой для кофейного столика и популярной нехудожественной литературой типа Карнеги. Идеальный вариант для комнаты ожидания.
  
  I think this is one of the few books that is not usually translated into other languages because its value lies in the person who wrote it. In other words, it is as if a similar book was written in Russia by Leonid Parfyonov. In Russia, he is well-known to many people, but in the world, there are not so many people who know about him. In cases with this book, the author is a famous American journalist or, to be more precise, an interviewer. I think this is the main reason for dissatisfaction with the book, because, in the USA, many people bought this book not because they expected to learn "to talk to anyone and about anything," but rather to learn about Larry King himself. And only the second reason to learn something directly related to the art of communication. Since I often read English-language books, which will most likely never be translated into Russian, I often meet such books. Their essence is the same: if you do not know what America is like, you will not be interested in such a book. By the way, to read such books, you don't have to be a U.S. citizen or live there, but it is enough to watch or listen to or read the news about events in the United States. Of course, in English, and thanks to the Internet, it is possible.
  The book is partly autobiographical and partly something like a Carnegie book. But the biography of the author in the book is nevertheless more. Therefore, on the one hand, the author offers quite useful tips in the Carnegie style, but there are very, very few. I can even say that this small book I liked only its first part. But even it does not offer something radically new or does it in some particularly interesting form. For example, the advice to take a sincere interest in the person you talk to does not seem particularly revolutionary. And it is presented quite usually. Keeping eye contact is not new either. However, I liked the way the topics are selected. The author writes that to start a conversation, you can always find a topic using the latest news or some items in the room where you are. That is, if there are trophies hanging on the wall, you can start a conversation about their history, and if you find an interesting photo, here is another great way to "melt the ice," so to speak. But, personally, I liked and remembered the moment in the book when the author writes about the way of choosing a partner for communication. That is, if you are interested in investment activity, you can try to start a conversation with news on this topic. If the partner answers something like "I don't know anything about this," it will be a clear signal that you should not waste time and effort and look for someone else to communicate with (this is about a party or a social event where there are a lot of people and you have to communicate). In other words, the point is to find the right person for you with whom the conversation will take place without much effort.
  Quite a funny episode related to negotiations, but for me, it's just a funny story and nothing more.
  In general, the advantage of this book is its extremely small size, easiness of text, entertainment, and personality of Larry King himself. To hope to learn to talk to anyone, about anything with this book, as for me, is quite naive. This book reminds a big article from a glossy magazine, even if it's a serious magazine like Forbes (although I'm not 100% sure that it could publish such autobiographical stories, but the point is not that, but that the book reminds me very much of thick magazines). Or this is the type of literature that is between a coffee table book and popular non-fiction literature such as Carnegie. Perfect for the waiting room.
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  Lesya Aleksandroff

  Конечно книга уже не так актуальна, но все же какие-то советы неплохи.
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  Richard Farnworth

  Didn't do what it said on the tin. While championing all his rich and famous friends for their skills in conversation and oratory, King ironically comes across as an insufferable bore. The book lacks any consistent structure (a paragraph named "how to talk at a funeral" was immediately followed by "how to talk to celebrities") and offers very little practical advice ("be more open" - it's that easy). Rather than including implementable exercises or techniques to slowly improve the way you speak, each loose theme /suggestion is lost in a stream of dull, often contradictory and sometimes dubious celebrity fables. These seem to be designed to give shout outs to his mates and it gets very tiresome very quickly. Would not recommend
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  Rina

  Если вы инопланетянин и вам нужны базовые правила общения с человеками - тогда это может быть полезно) Но и эти правила здесь касаются в основном только знаменитостей и ведения телепередач. За то это уникальная возможность получить кучу лишней информации о самом Ларри Кинге, его таланте и величии XD
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  Ivan

  Dimulai dengan pernyataan besar: orang yang sukses adalah pembicara yang sukses. Larry King membeberkan segala pengalaman, tips dan trik, dan seni berbicara yang membuatnya menjadi terkenal seperti sekarang. “Berbicara itu seperti bermain golf, mengendarai mobil, atau mengelola toko—semakin sering melakukannya, semakin mahir Anda jadinya, dan semakin senang Anda melakukannya,” kata pembawa acara Larry King Live CNN ini.
  
  Setiap orang bisa bicara, tapi tidak semuanya bisa berbicara dengan baik. Larry mengatakan bahwa untuk menjadi pembicara yang baik, mesti menjadi pendengar yang baik. Semua orang ingin berbicara mengenai dirinya, dan alangkah indahnya jika semua orang ingin pula mendengarkan orang lain bicara. Ini sebenarnya prinsip mutualisme dasar yang diterapkan Larry: jika ingin dihormati, hormati orang lain. Dalam buku ini ia memberi banyak resep yang akan membantu kita menguasai seni berbicara, baik itu dengan teman sejawat, kelompok tugas, lawan jenis, atasan, orang tua, bahkan selebritis, dalam berbagai situasi.
  
  “How to Talk to Anyone, Anytime, and Anywhere” juga membahas kecenderungan masyarakat kita yang senang menggunakan ‘catchphrase’, ungkapan-ungkapan kosong, yang sebenarnya, menurut Larry, merusak percakapan, serta beberapa istilah-istilah trendi yang sering digunakan. Buku yang diterjemahkan menjadi “Seni Berbicara kepada Siapa Saja, Kapan Saja, dan di Mana Saja” ini sangat berguna bagi mereka, terutama yang sering tampil di depan publik, karena ia juga memberikan rahasia untuk sukses memukau audiens. Namun, pada dasarnya, buku ini bagus untuk setiap orang, karena semua orang bicara.
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  Yaman

  الكتاب من تأليف لاري كنج –ملك الكلام!- وهو غني عن التعريف- بالاشتراك مع بيل جيلبرت-الذي لا أعرفه.
  يقولون عن لاري كنج: إذا ذهب لاري إلى الملعب واستمرت المبارة لساعتين وعشردقائق فسيكون وصف لاري للمبارة بعد أن يعود في ساعتين وعشر دقائق!.
  قد لا يهمك هذا لكن شخصيا لو استمرت المباراة عشر ساعات فلن يكون وصفي لها إلا في عشر ثواني!
  
  كتاب جميل من شخص يعرف الموضوع الذي يتحدث عنه جيدا, فهو متخصص في الكلام على حد قوله, ويعمل في الإذاعة و التلفاز منذ مدة طويلة جدا.
  
  الكتاب يتكون من 216 صفحة من الحجم المتوسط. الكتاب ملئ بالنصائح و التوجيهات و الإرشادات و الملاحظات و المواقف التى حصلت للمؤلف خلال رحلته الطويلة مع الكلام.
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  Theingi Lynn

  There are a bunch of useful tips to improve our communication skills. Larry does give real life advices and examples. However, as a millennial and a non-American, I am not familiar with his guests when he gives examples so It is hard for me to have better understanding. A part from that, it is overall a good book for people who make living with different forms of communication.
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  Anna H.

  Fast, easy, and useful read. It feels a little dated, since it was written in the 90's, and I didn't recognize the names of many of the celebrities King mentioned, though that's probably because I'm too young. The advice itself is still relevant: treat conversations as opportunities, talk about what you know and love, and my favorite bit, "be interested to be interesting."
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  G. Clay

  King's book is a fairly fun read, but provides mostly common sense information. If you've never taken a class or read anything else it might be a nice introduction. One of the best sections was about business meetings. I do wish more people followed his suggestions in that setting!