Review: Needs Work
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 09 13, 2012
There are some elements here for a light and funny ex-pat narrative, but the writing needs quite a bit of work, and the book could do with some serious editing.  If it was a third of its current length it could cover the same ground and be much tighter and easier to read.  Some of the stuff about the German grocery store really is funny, but the discussion of it is far, far too long.  There's no need to talk about how the Germans have mastered the "art of grocery shopping."  Humorous travel narratives need a more understated voice.  I was also troubled by the regular use of the term "Krauts" to refer to Germans.  If this term has somehow been reclaimed and isn't an insult I haven't heard about it.