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Swiss Watching: Inside Europe's Landlocked Island (2010)

by Diccon Bewes(Favorite Author)

3.75 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1857885481 (ISBN13: 9781857885484)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Nicholas Brealey Publishing

review 1: If you are interested in Switzerland and its people, read this! As a Swiss citizen, it is very funny but also very intersting as I found out about habits Swiss people actually do have, that I did not know before. But whilst reading this amazing book, I noticed them and I find myself very strange now.There is a great deal of sarcasm in this book, but I never felt as if the author is making fun of "the Swiss Way of doing stuff". It is just a perfect represention of Switzerland!Diccon Bewes tells you about different places, about politics, about Swiss legends, about their way of life and after reading this book you will know more about "the Swiss" than the actual Swiss citizen.An amazing book!
review 2: This is almost required reading for non-Swiss residents of Sw... moreitzerland, but I found it disappointingly shallow and not particularly insightful. The volume includes some light popular history, and a lot of descriptions of the author's trips around Switzerland. The descriptions are occasionally mildly amusing, but more often full of less than useful details. There is no overarching narrative, and reads like a random collection of snippets. For a book on Swiss culture, it contains very little discussion of culture, and a whole lot of stereotypical summary of Swiss habits and glib assumptions about Swiss "character." Serious readers will find the book more annoying than informative. less

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