The Art of Witty Banter: Be Clever, Be Quick, Be Interesting - Create Captivatin (How to be More Likable and Charismatic) Paperback – November 22, 2016

My favorite parts were: chapter 7 on creating a conversation resume, chapter 14 on more effective compliments, and chapter 13 on mastering “what were you saying?”They sound pretty simple. The titles of the chapters sometimes even tell you exactly what it is. But there are two things. It’s being able to do it correctly, and understand why it matters in the grand scheme of trying to talk to someone!I will look forward to reading more books from this author. He’s got a lot of real tips and isn’t just some armchair coach. Believe me, I have made the mistake of reading a few of THOSE books from amazon. This one is the real deal. I already feel more confident for witty banter! 5 stars.

This was a great read and very helpful in those situations where you need to make small talk often. Patrick gives loads of ideas how to make small talk interesting and engaging. The only chapter I didn’t agree with was the one on teasing. I think we need to know people pretty well before we banter in this way, because otherwise teasing can be interpreted as just plain mean.

Mr King is certainly a prolific author; and I suspect he is guilty (as charged on some of the other reviews) of recycling similar material in several different books. Nevertheless, this book is an excellent and well-written guide to the art of good conversation; the author has put a lot of thought into the topic, and makes many practical and actionable recommendations - some obvious, others less so. However, this is NOT a guide to the art of witty banter; perhaps two of the eighteen chapters have anything to do with wit or banter. I would highly recommend this book to anyone looking to improve their general conversation skills; but not to anyone looking to improve either their wit or their banter.

Some might say this book is about the illusion of being good at witty banter… but isn’t that what it’s about? Witty banter is just to connect with people and make them have an impression about you, and aren’t we all creating the illusion of ourselves as that type of person when we meet others?In other words, this book was great and does exactly what it promises to. I feel more confident talking to people because I have these witty banter tactics up my sleeve to whip out whenever things run stale or I want to throw a little twist into the discussion.I do internal sales for my work which means I talk to people a lot, and it’s not always fun. In fact I usually go there with a very strict goal I am trying to accomplish, and I am looking at people as a means to that goal! It’s not pretty but it’s reality. I just want to sell something!There is a very noticeable difference before and after I read this book. When I can use elements of witty banter like the author describes, the sales meetings actually go much more smoothly, even though I’m not talking about selling most of the time!Overall lesson is when you can connect with people better and just BANTER, everything goes smoothly, whatever you want comes more smoothly too!

I am an introvert and conversation at networking events can be challenging. They make me want to run screaming from the building as soon as I get there :)This book is filled with unique, creative ideas to bring life to any conversation. I can't wait to try out my new found skills and for once I actually look forward to my next networking event.The book is played out very nicely with great examples on how to use each technique. At the end there is a list and description of each technique so you can quickly find the ones you want to try.Go buy this book now, if you want to learn how to take control of your conversations in a really good way and build rapport and connection at the same time.

I enjoyed this book and got some great tips for chit chat. I find chit chat hard, talking about the weather or sport always feels so false but I like banter and this book gives some skills for improvement.I might not have bought this book if I'd read some of the negative reviews in here, but I'm glad I read it and I found it useful.

Some decent tips but nothing groundbreaking. Also not much effort put into the actual production of the book itself

This entire book deals with not just tools and tips for witty banter to charm people, but really just rules of thumb for any situation, that can be used for business to even public speaking.You would think it's common sense, and some of it is, but as I read the book and started to think about how I approached these things, as well as how my "banter" went from day to day, well, it's really not so common. No one does this stuff.It's little stuff, but it's the little stuff that matters. That's the stuff that can make you super charming, or super avoidable. Something from each of the chapters has been extremely useful for me. I've tried to focus on implementing one at a time, and while it's hard, that's the way to do it more effectively.I'm a prolific reader of self development (self help sounds so negative) and even then, this book stands out above the rest. I think it is probably because the author is actually a coach first, as opposed to a writer first. This means that he knows how to actually solve these problems and deal with creating witty banter in real life, and that is priceless to have experience to write with. King stands out above the rest, for sure, and I would not hesitate to recommend this to any one of my friends.