During my usual bookstore visit when I come to Fermilab, I stumbled over this book here and I could hardly put it aside. It is such a funny description of Parisian life, containing all the clichés about the French (as well as the English) “The French year starts in September and finishes in May…” I felt a little like being back already, maybe even better. Talking about it to my French collegues, they didn't apprear to be able to imagine that this book can possibly be soooo funny (well Bob, besides you, and you live in Germany!) It's probably easier for foreigners living in Paris to appreciate. Yet come on, you also make fun of others, and sometimes you even despise them - hey we love you guys, but clichés from France are just as Dirndel and Lederhosen and Wurst! Jaja! And Gordon, we miss "An American Summer in Marseille..."
it amounts to nothing when you are asked to put out a great fire even before you could walk and talk... (BDP-748)
Posted by: m.visaya | October 03, 2005 at 12:18 PM