Having bought the book to read during our first year of living in Greece we found it was written from a very different point of view to ours. It depicts the Greeks in an often disparaging way - OK, things don't happen quickly here but surely anyone knows that. If you are looking for a book on how not to do things the right way, then this is it. If you want to live as an ex-pat/have a holiday home then it could be useful. If you love the Greek way of life & want to experience it by integrating into a community, then this is certainly not an account of that.