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My 'dam Life: Three Years in Holland (Lonely Planet Journeys) [Paperback]

Sean Condon
3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)

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1 Feb 2003 Lonely Planet Journeys
In "Sean & David's Long Drive" he careered around Australia with his laconic pal David in a retro Ford Falcon. In "Drive Thru America" he and David cruised the States in a very uncool Chrysler Neon.
Now Australian humorist Sean Condon is married and living in Amsterdam - jobless, homeless, careless and Dave-less. In "My 'Dam Life" he casts a witty, watchful and wonderfully self-deprecating eye over his expat experience of laziness and leisure, dreams and destiny in the Venice of the North.
With his uncanny ability to seek out the absurd in everyday life, Sean finds plenty of targets in a city of hemp and high culture, canals and bicycles, idiosyncratic plumbing and internationally unrenowned cuisine. "My 'Dam Life" strikes a hilarious chord with anyone who has followed their dream of starting a new life abroad.


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  • Paperback: 248 pages
  • Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications (1 Feb 2003)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0864427816
  • ISBN-13: 978-0864427816
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 13.4 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 522,760 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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a smart and funny book' -- San Francisco Chronicle

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Boring and uninformative 18 Feb 2007
Format:Paperback
This is not a book about living in Amsterdam, this is a record of an unemployed and bored man who happened to live in Amsterdam. Condon tries too hard to be funny and ends up being tedious and repetitive as he has very little to say. By his own account he hasn't bothered to learn Dutch during his 3 years stay there, so the book lacks insight into Dutch life.

(But is full of meetings with ex-pats). I found the book boring and uninformative.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars Too many errors mask the humour 19 Sep 2007
Format:Paperback
Dutch society is an easy target for Anglo-Saxon humour, and Condon has an amusing turn of phrase. That said, the book contains far too many errors for me to read comfortably, especially in the Dutch and the translation thereof, which is abominable. Couldn't Condon have asked one of of many Dutch people he met in Amsterdam to check it? I counted an average of 1 error per page, and that really grates when reading it. I'd like to think that the non-lingustic errors were deliberately made for comic effect, but have to doubt that as the reality is often more comic than Condon has written.

Of course, nobody who doesn't speak Dutch and who has spent less than a weekend in Amsterdam will give a fig for the mistakes, but the natural market for this sort of book is those of us who have spent time in Amsterdam as expatriates. That market is crowded, and this book just doesn't cut it.
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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars An amusing diversion from Sean Condon 1 April 2003
Format:Paperback
Sean Condon has written two of the funniest travel books ever (Sean & David's Long Drive & Drive-Thru America). This isn't really a travel book, but a diary of three years living in Amsterdam. It is highly readable and amusing, but doesn't quite reach the hilarity of his previous two travel books. But it's well worth a read - everything Sean writes is - and gives an honest view of the ups and downs of the Great Australian Dream (ie to live somewhere else).
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