Naughty but affectionate guide to French thinking!
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This is not another volume in the Paul West series, but a very funny guide to the way the French think, and what it's like to live there amongst it all! Anyone who's spent any time will recognise the descriptions of bureaucracy, restaurant waiters - and of course French drivers!! However, as with all the best of this type of book, there is some practical info along with the mockery.
Great gift for a Francophile, but beware reading in a public place, as people will be staring at you while you snigger!
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Special info...
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Evreything you always wanted to know about France but were afraid to ask... is in this wonderful book, "Talk to the Snail"!
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if you've ever been or are going to France... or even if you haven't
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a really funny read and very insightful too. tells you everything the guidebooks leave out about that lovely and infuriating place known as france. can't go wrong with it.
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Right on the nose
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I've been in France since 1995, and have read almost every Anglophone book about the country. About 95% of them are full of clichés and not even funny. But Stephen's book is not only hilarious (I no longer care if Parisians stare at me when I'm laughing on the metro), it's also the most original critique I've read in a long time. I think it's also a fair book, because he makes as much fun of us English/Americans as he does the French. A great read!
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Essential reading
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This is essential reading for anyone interested in France and the French.
Fantastic insights into how the French think, and the origins of some of their foibles etc.
It made me laugh outloud ( and make a bit of a spectacle of myself on London's buses in the process).
Informative, well written, and funny too. I didn't want it to end- and I'm hoping there will be more to come.
A "must have" read.
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