True Brits

by J R Daeschner | Outdoors & Nature |
ISBN: Global Overview for this book
Registered by Seanan of -- Somewhere in London šŸ¤·ā€ā™€ļø , Greater London United Kingdom on 7/28/2004
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14 journalers for this copy...
Journal Entry 1 by Seanan from -- Somewhere in London šŸ¤·ā€ā™€ļø , Greater London United Kingdom on Wednesday, July 28, 2004
Sure to revamp anybody's image of staid Britons. Here is the book's attendant web site: http://www.truebrits.tv/flash_home.html

It is about to hit the road on a book ring. If you're interested in joining, please let me know.

Journal Entry 2 by rem_DRO-922086 on Friday, July 30, 2004

Arrived today - amazingly, this is the first BC book in quite some time which has not been hurled across the hall, delivered into the flowerbox, or otherwise insulted by the postman.

Thanks for the pretty caligraphy address. TBR as soon as possible - looks like a great read.

Journal Entry 3 by rem_DRO-922086 on Thursday, September 23, 2004
This was a lot of fun - thanks so much for starting the bookring!! My favorite parts were the description of the crazed instinct for self-destruction that leads to cheese-rolling and the local pride the residents of Egremont invest in gurning. They wanna be OOGLY! : )

I now have an address for the next reader, and I am sending this on today.

Journal Entry 4 by rmg from Exeter, Devon United Kingdom on Friday, September 24, 2004
Received this morning. Looks great...

Journal Entry 5 by rmg from Exeter, Devon United Kingdom on Tuesday, October 5, 2004
This was a quick and entertaining read, just what I needed after being mired in "The Mill on the Floss" for weeks.

I particularly enjoyed the stupidly dangerous events like Cheeserolling and shinkicking. I've also decided never to visit Lewes (site of the Pope burning). My local high-risk, booze-fuelled bonfire night is the barrel races at Ottery St Mary, but this is mild in comparison. OSM's bonfire night is really just scrumpy-driven high jinx with no undercurrent of sectarian hatred.

The book is now wrapped and ready to send. I just have to get it to a post office...

Journal Entry 6 by MyopicMeringue on Thursday, October 7, 2004
I received this today. It looks like it will be a fun read.

Journal Entry 7 by MyopicMeringue on Wednesday, January 5, 2005
Gosh - I just realise I've had this book since October - sorry, everyone! I've finally finished it, and a very fun read it was too. It's funny - I'm aware we have all kind of odd traditions in Britain, but a lot of them I don't actually know about, so it was entertaining to read about them.

I will send this off to the next person as soon as I get an address.

Edited to add: mailed on 14/1/05.

Journal Entry 8 by Brujula from Valenciennes, Nord-Pas-de-Calais France on Monday, January 17, 2005
Received today!
Thank you Seanan and MyopicMeringue.

Journal Entry 9 by Brujula from Valenciennes, Nord-Pas-de-Calais France on Tuesday, February 22, 2005
Some of these wild sports are really weird.
Well, I didn't finish this book, but I've already kept it a little over a month, so I'm mailing it to Flicky. The stories are funny and entertaining, but sometimes the author is a little redundant (somehow I had the impression he was telling me the same thing about four to six times for every different event)

Thank you Seanan for sharing this book!

Journal Entry 10 by Flicki from Aurich, Niedersachsen Germany on Wednesday, March 2, 2005
Thanks! I only received this book! There are still a couple of bookringbooks ahead but I will get to this one as soon as I will make it! Yay! :-)

Journal Entry 11 by Flicki from Aurich, Niedersachsen Germany on Saturday, March 26, 2005
Only browsed through the book: The traditions, Daeschner describes are quite interesting but I don't care all too much about the people he interviewed. I wish there had been more pictures, but I will check out his website now, maybe I'll find some there! :-)

Sent on to Antof9 this morning!

Thanks for sharing!

Journal Entry 12 by Flicki from Aurich, Niedersachsen Germany on Saturday, March 26, 2005
Haha, the website is just great after having read the book! I especially liked the burry man's 'normal' face! ;-) If there's a gurning contest, is there also a sulking contest somewhere? :-)

Journal Entry 13 by Antof9 from Lakewood, Colorado USA on Thursday, May 26, 2005
Yay! It's here, safe and sound :) It got here safely in a very well-travelled little envelope! If this envelope could talk . . .

Anyway, I'm in the middle of one or two others, but I should be able to start this soon. Thanks for sharing, SeƔnan!

Journal Entry 14 by Antof9 from Lakewood, Colorado USA on Saturday, November 12, 2005
You may be thinking, "why did she have that book so long?! What's wrong with Ant?"

And I'll tell you :)

I began reading this book shortly after I got it. And I enjoyed it as much as the rest of the ring members. But after I'd read a handful of chapters, it all seemed the same to me. A small town, a lot of beer, and then something wacky and destructive, that you could never picture a Proper English Gentlemen doing. So I finally gave up and didn't finish. (*hangs her head in shame*)

Then I contacted our jet-setting friend SeƔnan, to see where the book should go next. Should it be in New York or in London? Or should I mail it to Timbuktu?

Finally, the perfect answer presented itself. Grooble started a thread in the forum about eccentric Brits, and how much she liked 'em. I PMd SeƔnan, asking permission to send it to Groobs. Permission received, and today the book is on its way.

YAY! I love when the right book can get in the right person's hands! Thanks for sharing this book, SeƔnan! It really is quite entertaining :)

One section from early in the book I'd like to quote here for its entertainment value is this:
A chartered-accountant-cum-bog-snorkeller came as close as anyone to explaining this national inclination toward eccentricity: 'We're always trying to prove we're not boring.' For being a bore is possibly the worst social crime a British person could commit, followed closely by being 'embarrassing' or 'awkward'. You can be a lousy parent, a womaniser, a drunk, even a certified lunatic, but God help you if you're boring. Bore-a-phobia has sent thousands of well-bred Englishmen on marvellous adventures, trekking through jungles, sailing around the world, slogging to the North Pole and scaling Mount Everest.


Edited to add link to the entry I wrote in my blog for the day I mailed this parcel to Groobs (12 November), and some other things. . .

Journal Entry 15 by grooble from Adelaide, South Australia Australia on Monday, November 21, 2005
I got this delighful book in the letterbox today- I'd like to say in the morning, but I went and did the shopping first, and the mail is often quite late.

When I got it, I was thrilled. In fact, I retrieved the book from the letterbox just before noon, and I have now got to page 248.

Thank you, all! This hilarious book NEEDS to be an Aussie bookray!

-I need to finish it first- but after my reading, I think EVERY anglophile is fair game!

ty, so much, all y'all!

Journal Entry 16 by grooble from Adelaide, South Australia Australia on Monday, November 28, 2005
A look at the most eccentric of nations: the British. discover bog-snorkelling, cheese rolling, horn dancing (that was my favourite chapter) and other strange rites and follies.

Very entertaining - I'm handing this to another bookcrosser today.

Journal Entry 17 by magicjessnrach from Flagstaff Hill, South Australia Australia on Monday, November 28, 2005
Found this book on my doorstep, thanks Groobs. It looks cool, will read it soon!

I have to cull my to be read pile as it is way too large. I had a flick through this and a chuckle but don't have the time to devote to it so off it goes :)

Journal Entry 18 by Arrietty from Adelaide, South Australia Australia on Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Picked this up at the Feb meetup. Looks like fun.

Journal Entry 19 by HINERANGI from Adelaide, South Australia Australia on Tuesday, May 9, 2006
passed on to me by another Arietty.
I didn't find this as funny as the author obviously thought I should, but it IS an interesting assembly of absolutely lunatic activities, as only the English would ever be seen doing.

Journal Entry 20 by bargainqueen from Avondale, Queensland Australia on Wednesday, November 15, 2006
wow what a well-travelled book! Picked up at Meet-up, will join my ginormous TBR pile. Thanks!

Journal Entry 21 by bargainqueen from Avondale, Queensland Australia on Friday, August 1, 2008
Wow, Sorry all for keeping this book for so long; it somehow kept getting pushed to the back of TBR in favour of easily and quickly read chicklit. I have finally finished it and despite having lived in England for five years, had only ever heard of one tradition - Cheese Rolling, and only because I studied Gastronomy under a professor from Holland who was obsessed with food-related activities. Strange how things come in roundabouts.
Most of the book I adored, but at times the author got on my nerves - he seemed rather defensive about the fact that he is Amercian.
I also got bored stiff by the chapter about coins.
This is one of the few books my other half and I both showed an interest in so it will remain with me for a little longer while he reads it - then it's off back to Meet up.

Released 15 yrs ago (8/12/2008 UTC) at Bookcrossing Meetup in To a fellow BookCrosser, Bookcrossing Meetup -- Controlled Releases

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Journal Entry 23 by sgjim from Unley, South Australia Australia on Sunday, October 12, 2008
The traditions are interesting, although it is true that they all seem to get a bit "same" after a while - meet early, go around all day drinking a lot while doing something wacky and collecting money for charity, talk about how you do it because of tradition, be mildly worried the younger generation doesn't care and won't continue it. In that way, while the actual traditions are odd and interesting, the priocess is very similar to a lot of what I know from my southern Italian heritage and many of the ridiculous and odd things done there. The website helps, because the book is woefully short of photos. It's a signed copy though, so that's very impressive!

Released 15 yrs ago (10/14/2008 UTC) at Griffin's Head Hotel, Hindmarsh Square in Adelaide, South Australia Australia

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Journal Entry 25 by D-503 at Radio Adelaide in Adelaide, South Australia Australia on Friday, December 12, 2008

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