Books by Stephen Clarke
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review 1: Amusing insight into Parisian lifestyle, culture, and geography. Highly recommended to anyone travelling to Paris for the first time. This is not your typical guide book with lists of hotels, restaurants, and museums; rather, it is an exploration of neighbourhoods and Paris qui...
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review 1: Love these books! As an American married to a Frenchman and living in UK, I really appreciate the accuracy of the French-British relationship. Stephen Clarke really "gets" the French! I found myself laughing out loud while reading the book because I've had similar experiences ...
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review 1: The everlasting hatred and enmity that these two majestic nation have for each other is daunting to comprehend. But it had a good outcome financially until the later years and how these 2 nations compete against one another. The secrets of history has been well revealed of the tw...
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review 1: Having read two books by Stephen Clarke about the Parisian adventures of a fictitious character, "Paris revealed" sounded like a light & fun read, while I didn't have any expectations towards it at all.Though it did have a few entertaining passages and it is successful at introdu...
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review 1: It's really nice to have a true insight about Parisian before i move out there. ;)And among all the books i have read about Paris, i guess this one is the most honest and blunt about it. Many books usually only telling the good side of Paris, but this one will make us see the goo...
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review 1: Stephen Clarke, a British, studied French at Oxford. He once moved to Paris and got a job as a journalist for an English Language magazine. With his unique experience, Stephen Clarke is qualified to write novels on life in Paris viewed from an Englishman.“The Merde Factor” is his...
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review 1: Was the Battle of Hastings a French victory? William the Conqueror was Norman and hated the French. Were the Brits really responsible for the death of Joan of Arc? The French sentenced her to death for wearing trousers. Was the guillotine a French invention? This book looks at wh...
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review 1: Since I have been a big fan of Merde series, I jumped right in this book. I loved it immensely since it involves characters that I have grown to love. However, saying that, this book is not the strongest one in the series. Some parts were a bit stretched and bit harder to pull th...
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review 1: My review copy of Dial M for Merde was graciously provided by the good people at Open Road Media Marketing. Special thanks to Kayla Shaw at Open Road for reaching out and inviting me to review the book.If you’re not familiar with the “Merde” books (A Year in the Merde, In the Mer...