- Paperback: 64 pages
- Publisher: Oval Books; New Ed edition (9 Nov 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1902825292
- ISBN-13: 978-1902825298
- Product Dimensions: 16.8 x 10.8 x 0.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 651,975 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This is one of a series of guides designed to tell the truth about other nations, using sweeping generalizations and observations as a base, detailing what to expect and how to cope with it. The guides try to explain why things are done the way they are and they try to allay the feelings of trepidation with which the xenophobe approaches new territory. This particular book looks at the Germans.
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30 of 32 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is absolutely hillarious! As a German who lived in London for 2 years, I think I am well qualified to concratulate the authors to their well balanced analysis of the German mind and culture. The combination of British humour and German reality is absolutely perfect - it made a German laugh!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Germany today is a pretty peaceable and civilized place and without some of the 'rough edges' one encounters in the UK. And I guess an Auslaender could travel and live there quite obliviously for a while and have a great time - as I have. Equally in retrospect, a book like this enables one to make sense of all those more lingering impressions and set them in clearer perspective. This guide of course also serves as a useful and perhaps even a necessary preparation for one's time in that fascinating country !
This book arrived by return from Amazon and I finished it (85 pps) within the day because it was such intriguing reading. It's well laid-out, intelligent, incisive, insightful and informative and very funny indeed in places. I enjoyed it and will certainly refer back to it again. I was so impressed that it has also whetted my interest for other guides in the series and am just about to have a look at what they have to say about the English and us Scots !! Nuff said !
This book arrived by return from Amazon and I finished it (85 pps) within the day because it was such intriguing reading. It's well laid-out, intelligent, incisive, insightful and informative and very funny indeed in places. I enjoyed it and will certainly refer back to it again. I was so impressed that it has also whetted my interest for other guides in the series and am just about to have a look at what they have to say about the English and us Scots !! Nuff said !
23 of 26 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
My German girlfriend was surprised how accurate this was when I started to read this to her the other day. There are a few points that don't ring true, like the comments about the Trabant car, but mostly it describes the Germany I experience every day very well and in a wonderfully humourous style, whether it is nitpicking about German humour, or praising Goethe.
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Rules or no rules
Bought this before going to Germany (albeit former GDR), in order to prepare for these dreaded Germans. Read more
Published 7 months ago by gitoutofhere
Superficial and exaggerated
A big disappointment. If you ever heard any prejudice about Germans: save your money and DON'T buy this book, because this is all it is. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Noa H
Reasonable concise overview, but sloppy and not always accurate
This book gives a concise and fairly reasonable overview of Germany and the Germans. There is a tendency to harp on old stereotypical clichés of German behaviour. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Michael Jones
Partially entertaining and mostly true - or is it the other way...
Just a word of warning straight away - this is not the type of book to help you figure out how to set up or live in Germany such as Living and Working in Germany (Living & Working... Read more
Published on 18 Feb 2010 by AK
Who says Germans have no sense of humour!
This book is extremely funny, it is written by Germans who are just as able to laugh at themselves as we English like to think we are. Read more
Published on 15 Dec 2009 by R. Fitzpatrick
Useful and funny
I bought this after moving to the east of France and spending more and more time in Germany. I love the Xenophobe guides - they are exaggerated of course but under the humour there... Read more
Published on 7 Aug 2009 by Little Me
In ordnung...
A very interesting, amusing, and observant insight into German culture.
Easy to read - I've passed my copy on to a German friend - along with the companion volume about the... Read more
Easy to read - I've passed my copy on to a German friend - along with the companion volume about the... Read more
Published on 2 July 2009 by Frank Connolly
Great book but too short!
If only this book were longer. When it arrived I was rather taken aback - just 60 pages? Surely not! What can I learn about the Germans in 60 pages? Read more
Published on 15 April 2007 by Helen Hancox
Most AUSGEZEICHNET!!
Oh my.. I'm a brazilian who just moved to London... from GERMANY! where I lived for 15 months.. and after 13, I had a bad week and some friends introduced me to this wonderful... Read more
Published on 13 Sep 2006 by Livia Cruz
Not entirely factual and very boring
Very disappointing.The ideal bedtime book for insomniacs, I couldn't keep awake whilst reading it. Laid out in a ( typical ) German matter-of-fact way, with hardly any lighthearted... Read more
Published on 17 Oct 2000 by pdesjard@esoc.esa.de
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