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| Talk to the Snail | 
 enlarge | Author: Stephen Clarke
Publisher: Black Swan
Category: Book
List Price: £6.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 3345
Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Pages: 272
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5 x 0.9
ISBN: 0552773689
EAN: 9780552774093
ASIN: 0552773689
Publication Date: July 2, 2007
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Condition: brand new - bent in storage immediate dispatch
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| Customer Reviews: Read 4 more reviews...
 Naughty but affectionate guide to French thinking! November 16, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
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!
 Special info... August 17, 2007
7 out of 13 found this review helpful
Evreything you always wanted to know about France but were afraid to ask... is in this wonderful book, "Talk to the Snail"!
if you've ever been or are going to France... or even if you haven't July 23, 2007
10 out of 15 found this review helpful
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.
Right on the nose March 27, 2007
16 out of 17 found this review helpful
I've been in France since 1995, and have read almost every Anglophone book about the country. About 95% of them are full of cliches 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!
Essential reading February 17, 2007
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
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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