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28 of 29 people found the following review helpful:
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Brilliant balance between British humour and German reality!,
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This review is from: The Xenophobe's Guide to the Germans: The Xenophobe's Guides Series (Xenophobe's Guides) (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!
22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
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Very funny and very accurate - Bill Bryson condensed,
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This review is from: The Xenophobe's Guide to the Germans: The Xenophobe's Guides Series (Xenophobe's Guides) (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.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
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Great book but too short!,
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This review is from: The Xenophobe's Guide to the Germans: The Xenophobe's Guides Series (Xenophobe's Guides) (Paperback)
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?
Quite a lot, as it turns out. This book launches straight in with a very amusing look at the Germans, giving a brief discussion of their history and how the German nation came to be and then detailing many of the quirks and habits of this fascinating nation. The authors give a few ideas how the Germans have been so successful, particularly in terms of literature and music (Goethe, Bach, Kant) but also show some of the angst and problems that the German nature can cause for the people. The authors are both German although I wouldn't know that from their writing which is excellent, funny and seems to understand the Brits very well. They are also very able to poke fun at their own country (although they say this isn't something at which Germans are very adept). With such a short book you can only really get a very brief introduction to German people but it's a very amusing overview and certainly made me think a number of times. We tend to think of the Germans as probably the closest to Brits in terms of personality and nature than other Europeans - this book shows that we might well be wrong in that opinion and it might just help us to understand them more when we visit.
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