Review: Arrogant author
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 08 5, 2013
The author's arrogance and feeling of entitlement came thru loud and clear in this book.  The whole purpose of the family going to Italy was supposedly to get out of the rat race, yet at the beginning, she says that since they sold their house, they will just come home, buy a bigger house and pick up where they left off.As a reader I was very insulted by the author putting in Italian words, then in the translation saying things like "dummy", or "stupid American".  I don't know if this was her attempt at humor, but if it was, all she did was insult me.  And her little lines of Italian at the end of the chapters with translation really were also insulting, but to the Italian people. She also refers to the "exasperating lack of class distinctions", makes fun of a man who obviously works very hard in the olive groves, doesn't learn his name but also makes fun of what his name might be.  Then she says if their nest egg dwindles, she can always get a job doing what he's doing.I just wanted to pummel this author right off her high horse.  I don't recommend this book nor would I ever read anything else written by her.  It's hard to believe this woman is a role model for her children.I just hope no one in Italy where they lived would ever read this piece of trash and think that all Americans are like her.