史蒂夫·杜伯兰尼卡　念过4年天主教神学院，本来要当神父，后来却进心理诊所工作。之前是超人气匿名博客“侍应生开骂”的博主“无名侍”。“侍应生开骂”的精彩文章为“无名侍，赢得了2007年BLLOGGIES最佳博客大奖，并被选录进2006年度最佳创意非小说写作。

在线阅读本书 According to The Waiter, eighty percent of customers are nice people just looking for something to eat. The remaining twenty percent, however, are socially maladjusted psychopaths. Waiter Rant offers the server's unique point of view, replete with tales of customer stupidity, arrogant misbehavior, and unseen bits of human grace transpiring in the most unlikely places. ...(展开全部)

小時候夢想當消防隊員，十幾歲時立志成為教宗，二十多歲時被炒魷魚的經驗多到差點精神崩潰， 三十歲起不得已到餐廳當服務生討生活，快四十歲時？ 靠部落格成為《紐約時報》暢銷書作家！ 我是個服務生。我把食物送上桌，換取小費。乍看之下，這好像是個單純的工作，只要看起來乾淨、有禮，表現出相當的推銷與遊說的本領，同時別忘記微笑就可以了。簡單，對吧？ ……你到底知不知道什麼叫人間疾苦？ 現在的服務生，不但要是食物過敏原專家、品酒師、行動電話禮儀糾察隊、養眼的型男、聽人告解的神父、娛樂表演高手、調酒師、急救人員、保鑣圍事、接線生、笑話大師、心理治療師、語言學專家、拳擊沙包袋、靈媒、外交人員，還要兼業餘廚師。 ──無名侍 你是人見人愛的好客人，還是人見人厭的奧客？ 服務生在餐點裡吐口水、丟鼻屎只是「都市傳說」？ 才怪！惹毛服務生，你將付出代價！ 服務生出擊，奧客無所遁形...(展开全部)

Gus and Ben are on the job, waiting and listening. Into the waiting silence rattles the dumb waiter with extraordinary demands for dishes they cannot supply - and who is operating the dumb waiter in an empty house? In a while their victim will come and they will know what to do.

Gus and Ben are on the job, waiting and listening. Into the waiting silence rattles the dumb waiter with extraordinary demands for dishes they cannot supply - and who is operating the dumb waiter in an empty house? In a while their victim will come and they will know what to do.

A waiter's job is to deceive you. They want you to believe in a luxurious calm because on the other side of that door... is hell. Edward Chisholm's spellbinding memoir of his time as a Parisian waiter takes you below the surface of one of the most iconic cities in the world and right into its glorious underbelly. He inhabits a world of inhuman hours, snatched sleep and dive bar...(展开全部)

A waiter's job is to deceive you. They want you to believe in a luxurious calm because on the other side of that door . . . is hell. Edward Chisholm's spellbinding memoir of his time as a Parisian waiter takes you beneath the surface of one of the most iconic cities in the world—and right into its glorious underbelly. He inhabits a world of inhuman hours, snatched sleep and div...(展开全部)

"New York Times" bestselling author Cecelia Ahern's charming new novel explores what happens when "what if" becomes a reality for two strangers whose lives are at a crossroads. "How can you know someone you've never met?" That's the question haunting Joyce Conway these days. Recovering from a terrible accident and with her marriage in pieces, Joyce is suddenly plagued by an ov...(展开全部)

"Do you have a list of your books, or do I just have to stare at them?" Shaun Bythell is the owner of The Bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland. With more than a mile of shelving, real log fires in the shop and the sea lapping nearby, the shop should be an idyll for bookworms. Unfortunately, Shaun also has to contend with bizarre requests from people who don't understand what a shop is...(展开全部)

Confessions of a Mask tells the story of Kochan, an adolescent boy tormented by his burgeoning attraction to men: he wants to be “normal.” Kochan is meek-bodied, and unable to participate in the more athletic activities of his classmates. He begins to notice his growing attraction to some of the boys in his class, particularly the pubescent body of his friend Omi. To hide his ...(展开全部)