spiderfelt 's review for:

Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong: Why We Love France, But Not the French by Jean Nadeau, Julie Barlow

3.0

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This is an informative read that explains the complexities of French culture and provides useful background for anyone trying to live in French society. While I learned much while reading, the book is written like a textbook. It is clunky and desperately needs a good editor. This is the sort of non-fiction that gives the genre a bad name. I would rate the book lower if I hadn't learned so much along the way. Each time I picked it up, I uttered a little groan. My family asked me why I continued to read it. Partly because I wanted to give it a fair shake, partly out of a sense of duty to the friend who gave it to me as a gift and partly because I was hoping to enjoy it. By the end, I was skipping the last half of each chapter.