What Do You Say After You Say Hello? Paperback – March 31, 1975

I found this book in my parent's library around 1978. I read it. It is among the most useful books I have ever read. I employed these suggestions and strategies throughout a 30 year (so far!) successful business career. This is a must read, especially for people uncomfortable in social settings. I wasn't but it still pushed me toward the classic art of conversation, which is an art and one to be studied.

Looks like the length of two classes in college. I was looking for the basic ideas, but this might be a dissertation.I probably won't read it. I'm going to look for something a little more 'beginner' or at least shorter.

If anyone is thinking about eatting married or starting a relationship... this book is a good read!

I'm reading Eric Berne's works out of personal interest. In his witty characterisations of the quirks and delusions of his patients, I see myself, my family, and my friends. In the context of transactional analysis, I'm able to make sense of some of the defects in my own personality and thereby make positive changes in my life.

I do have one Chinese version however the original one is a precious treasure. Love to have it though it is published at my eldest brother's age. The total conditions are quite good.

At over four hundred pages, this will take awhile to read. Think it will be worth the effort.

Great book as always with Eric Berne, you'll learn a lot about how your mind works and why you think and act the way you do (might even be scary...).The only complain is that sometimes the author doesn't get too much into the subject and leave it to the reader to understand what he's talking about. Without prior knowledge of Eric Berne's work it might be hard to understand sometimes (even with).You have to remember that this book was published after he died, so it might sometimes feel like it's not quite finish.

It was recommended to me by a pshychologist, it's a good book.

I have an interested layperson's interest in TA. For me it makes sense and would explain aspects of my life and those of others I know.This was a good resume of the script or scripts that people follow. The writing style however is a bit laboured at times, with some concepts almost tenuously derived. Eg whether a patient is spincterised via the bottom, mouth etc. I'm not enough of an expert to refute or agree with this, however I couldn't see how this thought was arrived at in the context of the preceding text.To conclude, I've learnt some new things and the book has provoked some interesting discussion, but it's been quite heavy weather.

I'm currently studying transactional analysis and this is one of the texts that of course it's founder Eric Berne wrote.I wish I could write positive things about this book but I really can't - it's relevant in terms of the premise and there are parts which I have found useful but it such a difficult book to get into. The writing style is (in my opinion) overly pretentious, and as someone who is not un-intelligent, I often found myself reaching for a dictionary to understand what he was trying to convey... Also I personally did not like the comparisons with fairy tales, as for me this was unhelpful.I'd recommend "Games People Play" by Berne much more than this as that is written in a more easily digestible style and I've personally taken a lot more from that book.

Intriguing and well-written book. Good quality of book even when second-hand. Good value for money.

If you want to communicate well and to understand yourself - and other people - better, you ab-so-lu-te-ly need to read Eric Berne (Games People Play, too)

My previous copy fell apart and then was lost after many years of being used and borrowed. I expect this copy will suffer the same fate, it's as good as ever, time moves on but human nature does not change.