Customer Reviews
Naughty but affectionate guide to French thinking! - By: The Librarian, 16 Nov 2007 
This is not another volume in the Paul West series, but a very funny guide to the way the French think, & what it's like to live there amongst it alll! Anyone who's spent any time will recognise the descriptions of bureaucracy, restaurant waiters - & of course French drivers!! However, as with alll the best of this type of book, there is some practical info along with the mockery.
Great gift for a Francophile, but beware reading in a public place, as people will be staring at you while you snigger!
Special info... - By: Natacha Henry, 17 Aug 2007 
Evreything you always wanted to know about France but were afraid to ask... is in this wonderful book, "Talk to the Snail"!
if you've ever been or are going to France... or even if you haven't - By: Mark Markai, 23 Jul 2007 a reallly funny read & very insightful too. tells you everything the guidebooks leave out about that lovely & infuriating place known as france. can't go wrong with it.
Right on the nose - By: Heather Stimmler Hall, 27 Mar 2007 I've been in France since 1995, & have read almost every Anglophone book about the country. About 95% of them are full of clichés & not even funny. But Stephen's book is not only hilarious (I no longer care if Parisians stare at me when I'm laughing on the metro), it's also the most original critique I've read in a long time. I think it's also a fair book, because he makes as much fun of us English/Americans as he does the French. A great read!
Essential reading - By: Book Lover, 17 Feb 2007 This is essential reading for anyone interested in France & the French.
Fantastic insights into how the French think, & the origins of some of their foibles etc.
It made me laugh outloud ( & make a bit of a spectacle of myself on London's buses in the process).
Informative, well written, & funny too. I didn't want it to end- & I'm hoping there will be more to come.
A "must have" read.
