A Year in the Merde

by Stephen Clarke | Humor |
ISBN: 0552772968 Global Overview for this book
Registered by dododumpling of St. Neots, Cambridgeshire United Kingdom on 5/5/2007
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Journal Entry 1 by dododumpling from St. Neots, Cambridgeshire United Kingdom on Saturday, May 5, 2007
A 30p library sale shelf bargain. :)

Journal Entry 2 by dododumpling from St. Neots, Cambridgeshire United Kingdom on Thursday, May 17, 2007
A Year in the Merde apparently confused people when first published. Zut alors! It wasn't really written by a 27-year-old recounting his attempts to open a chain of tea shops in Paris.

Oh please. Read and enjoy for what it is - a lighthearted, easy read about a young man's year in France, enlivened with humourous tales of corruption, food and sex.

Journal Entry 3 by dododumpling from St. Neots, Cambridgeshire United Kingdom on Thursday, June 28, 2007
I'm taking this to the Uncon in Brighton on Saturday.

RELEASE NOTES:

I took this to the Uncon but it seems noone picked it up and I guess it must have been set free on the release walk, so I''m now setting the status to travelling.

Journal Entry 5 by KBHR from Tunbridge Wells, Kent United Kingdom on Thursday, November 29, 2007
Sorry about this, I thought I'd registered this as a catch when I got back from the Uncon but must have missed it
 I rescued it from my tbr shelf and began reading last week to get me in the mood for upcoming trip to Paris, and finished it on the Eurostar on the way home last night.

This was a good fun depiction of everyday life in Paris, with its bureaucracy and strikes, wonderful food, cafĂ© culture, employment law, endless days off and 35 hr working weeks. Sounded the ideal working environment to me, having had one too many bland office jobs where it’s expected you feign great passion for being bolted to your desk gulping bites of sandwich between phone calls when you’d rather be sitting in the park with a good book. Lucky old Paul! And it made me laugh out loud several times. Stephen Clarke seems to think his creation is something of an English stud, always landing on his feet (or off them) and saved from being a complete lecherous chancer by his nice middle class manners. About on the money then. Have managed to pick up a copy of the follow up ‘Merde Actually’ so look forward to finding out what becomes of the flagship branch of ‘My Tea Is Rich’!

Might bring along to next Sunday's outing of the Hampstead Bookcrossers day trip to the seaside for release.


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