The Truth About Lying

By: Gini Graham Scott

Narrated by: Lea Greene

The Truth About Lying is a book about how and why people lie, how we respond when others lie to us, how to tell when someone is lying, and what to do about it. As the book illustrates, we lie for all kinds of reasons - to protect ourselves, gain an advantage, avoid punishment, protect other's feelings, escape blame, or get out of something we don't want to do. Though philosophers, religious leaders, teachers, and parents tell us lying is morally wrong - at some time, everyone does it. And in the last decade, we have seen more and more examples of lying in the daily news.

The Truth About Lying provides a broad overview of the subject in a book that has become a classic. It begins with an overview of the pervasiveness of lying today and throughout history. Then, it discusses the range of lies, reasons people lie, and different types of lies in different situations, using many stories from ordinary, respectable people to illustrate.

The concluding chapters discuss how listeners can deal with lying in their own lives.

©2011 Gini Graham Scott (P)2016 Gini Graham Scott

Good book!

I wouldn't normally choose this title but because of a recommendation I decided to give it a listen. The reader is very clear and actually sold me on the content. I really liked this book!

The authors opinion on various forms of lying

The book is written like gossip, examples and generalizations thrown one after the other, there is no underlying thread nor any useful takeaway. I had to stop reading after chapter two, when the chances of it taking off were getting too thin. This is a missed opportunity. The book shares its title with another presumably better book, and it most likely sold many copies on a misunderstanding (that's what happened to me).