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A review by maplessence
The Xenophobe's Guide to the Kiwis by Christine Cole Catley
1.0
I brought this home from work as a paragraph on the back cover made me smile. I'm not going to quote it. You may be stuck one day in a dentist's waiting room with only this book to read & nothing else in this book is entertaining. If this slight volume is meant to be humorous it completely misses the mark.
Kiwis are famously insecure about how they are perceived by the rest of the world. I've read accounts of visiting tourists alighting from their plane & being asked how they like New Zealand "so far!" But I don't mind a bit of mickey taking
Unfortunately I didn't get it.
Apparently part of a humorous series, this book does't even try to be amusing. It is just a collection of headed paragraphs written in a completely flat style. The one irrefutable fact I thought everyone knew about NZ was that it is sports obsessed (to a ridiculous degree) but that only warranted one paragraph. (unless it is talked about again later in the book. I gave up just before half way)Events from the 90s (when this book was written) are referenced but it feels more like the book is talking about the 1960s.
Quite definitely not recommended.
Kiwis are famously insecure about how they are perceived by the rest of the world. I've read accounts of visiting tourists alighting from their plane & being asked how they like New Zealand "so far!" But I don't mind a bit of mickey taking
Unfortunately I didn't get it.
Apparently part of a humorous series, this book does't even try to be amusing. It is just a collection of headed paragraphs written in a completely flat style. The one irrefutable fact I thought everyone knew about NZ was that it is sports obsessed (to a ridiculous degree) but that only warranted one paragraph. (unless it is talked about again later in the book. I gave up just before half way)Events from the 90s (when this book was written) are referenced but it feels more like the book is talking about the 1960s.
Quite definitely not recommended.