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Dessine-Moi Un Parisien (2010)

by Olivier Magny(Favorite Author)

3.51 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

226405316X (ISBN13: 9782264053169)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

10/18

review 1: While I was reading this book, I wasn't really sure how I was supposed to respond. It took me awhile to realise that the author was trying to be funny about the French, but then I can't really appreciate the way he writes :/ There were some contradictory moments, and I really wanted to like this book, for the interesting information I thought it was going to provide. Sigh. Perhaps this is for people who already know what the French are like.
review 2: Ah, Paris. Gay Paree. The City of Light. A mecca for international fashion. Beware Americans wearing white socks! In "Stuff Parisians Like", Olivier Magny strips away all the layers and boils an entire population of 2.2 million individuals down to a black-wearing, denim-clad, art-loving, sushi-eating society ... moreof doubting Thomases who think all Americans are stupid (though there is no doubt about this fact!). (For the record, Belgians, you are safe - they like you!) Parisian men must be scruffy, while Parisian women are all on diets, always. In fact, Parisians are not a decadent people: they never overindulge. Parisians watch foreign films in their original languages only, and take extended weekend holidays to escape the city - they long to sail the seven seas and love L'Isle Saint-Louis. Parisians love certain words ("petit" and "putain" being two of them), winning arguments, making lists, snow and skiing, sunshine, house parties, Berthillon ice cream, and New York. They urinate on the city streets, feel continually guilty, and often flake on plans at the last minute. Take all of this information to heart and you will envision a rather ridiculously impersonal modern society that welcomes few and scoffs at most; and yet, even as the proverbial 'Stupid American', I see a serious problem with the pictures painted herein. So while "Stuff Parisians Like" should be a witty little treatise on all that is Parisian - a mocking tribute, if you will - there is a defined lack of humor here. Instead, this reads like a traveler's how-to for the stupid 'beauf' who dares to enter this beautiful, classic European city. less

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