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Monsieur Mediocre: One American Learns the High Art of Being Everyday FrenchA hilarious, candid account of what life in France is actually like, from a writer for Vanity Fair and GQ Americans love to love Paris. We buy books about how the French parent, why French women don't get fat, and how to be Parisian wherever you are. While our work hours increase every year, we think longingly of the six weeks of vacation the French enjoy, imagining them at the seaside in stripes with plates of fruits de mer. John von Sothen fell in
A hilarious, candid account of what life in France is actually like, from a writer for Vanity Fair and GQ Americans love to love Paris. We buy books about how the French parent, why French women don't get fat, and how to be Parisian wherever you are. While our work hours increase every year, we think longingly of the six weeks of vacation the French enjoy, imagining them at the seaside in stripes with plates of fruits de mer. John von Sothen fell in love with Paris through the stories his mother told of her year spent there as a student. And then, after falling for and marrying a French waitress he met in New York, von Sothen moved to Paris. But fifteen years in, he's finally ready to admit his mother's Paris is mostly a fantasy. In this hilarious and delightful collection of essays, von Sothen walks us through real life in Paris--not only myth-busting our Parisian daydreams but also revealing the inimitable and too often invisible pleasures of family life abroad. Relentlessly funny and full of incisive observations, Monsieur Mediocre is ultimately a love letter to France--to its absurdities, its history, its ideals--but it's a very French love letter: frank, smoky, unsentimental. It is a clear-eyed ode to a beautiful, complex, contradictory country from someone who both eagerly and grudgingly calls it home.Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 08/25/2020
ISBN: 9780735224858
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.90d
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★★★★★ 5
Funny and unexpected
Format: Hardcover
I bought this book for my girlfriend who is a big Ralph Wiggum fan. When it arrived, I was shocked to see what a thorough exploration of the character it was. I'm not saying it's all canon in terms of the show, as i saw some complaints that there was stuff in this book that wouldn't make sense to the Ralph character (such as his love for Lisa) due to them "breaking up" in a past episode, but come on, that's a hogwash complaint. The whole point of this book is to entertain, and it does so in spades, so it comes highly recommended. And this is coming from a huge 'The Simpsons' fan himself.
Oh, and by the way, my girlfriend loved it, too.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2014
★★★★★ 5
amazing
Format: Hardcover
i purchased this for my son when he turned 13. He loves the quotes and the book. We both have gotten countless laughs from it. Definitely an excellent purchase.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2021
★★★★★ 5
my 12yo has not enjoyed a book so much in years
Format: Hardcover
this book is smaller than I thought it would be but it was so jam packed full of information ,my 12yo has not enjoyed a book so much in years , we had to tag team reading it to him as he did not want to stop , it was so funny as well
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Reviewed in the United States on June 19, 2016
★★★★★ 5
Fun advise
Format: Hardcover
Great advise. My son has been a Simpsons fan since the Butterfinger commercials. A no brainer for a father's day gift.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2020
★★★★★ 5
Simpsons Library of Wisdom is always informative!!!!
Format: Hardcover
Cool book about Ralph Wiggum!!!
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Reviewed in the United States on September 30, 2021