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Schottenfreude: German Words For The Human Condition (2013)

by Ben Schott(Favorite Author)

4.04 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

039916670X (ISBN13: 9780399166709)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Blue Rider Press

review 1: I just received this book today and am already in love with it. With every new page, I discover a word that perfectly pinpoints a very specific sensation that one often finds hard to put into words (such as: Fingernageltafelquietsrhen--the visceral hatred of certain noises). Over and over again I thought "YES!! Finally a word to describe this!" Needless to say, my vocabulary is about to contain many more German words. Like others have said, however, the biggest problem with the book is the format. It was quite frustrating to get used to, but I would still recommend Shottenfreude to my friends! I do believe that this book is less of a cover-to-cover read and more of a book to browse every now and then.
review 2: I won this book from a Goodreads firstreads giveaw... moreay.I already speak a little German, which made this book funnier to me than I think it would be to others, but I can't be sure. What really makes it pop is the huge amount of research that has gone into these made-up words' meanings. Mr. Schott has created some amazing compound words that really only work in German, but convey the ideas that I have personally pondered so many times. I think that it is very well-written, well-researched, and well-translated. I hope that I can remember some of the Schott-isms so that when they occur in my life again, I am ready to convey the meaning. less

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