Michael Booth contributes to numerous British and foreign magazines and all of the UK's broadsheet newspapers. He is the author of four works of non-fiction: Eat, Pray, Eat, which was nominated for a British Travel Press Award in 2012; Just As Well I'm Leaving, nominated for the Irish Times first writers award; Sacré Cordon Bleu, a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week; and Sushi and Beyond, winner of the Guild of Food Writers award in 2010. He lives in Denmark with his wife and children.
发表于2024-12-22
The Almost Nearly Perfect People 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
这本书挺有趣的,同样也是一本非虚构的书,讲述了北欧五国(丹麦、冰岛、挪威、芬兰、瑞典)的人文社科情况,以特有的英式口吻,向我们娓娓揭开神秘的福利国家的真面目。实在太有意思了,这篇文章就用来收录专属于各个国家的冷幽默吧。 丹麦 丹麦被称为是世界上最幸福的国家,...
评分英国人迈克尔•布斯的这本《北欧,冰与火之地的寻真之旅》与法国人西尔万•泰松的游记作品《在西伯利亚森林中》有很多类似的地方。两本书的作者都是以一个“向往者”的身份,踏上了自己并不曾涉足过的土地,去直观地感受自己渴慕已久的“幸福生活”。而二者到最后有多少...
评分丹麦一再问鼎全世界最幸福的国家,迈克(英国佬)抓狂,老纸娶了个丹麦媳妇儿,常年生活在这里,幸福么!幸福么!幸福么!难道我生活在假的丹麦? 对,它们福利好,可那是高税收收起来的啊。我赚100,顶多33块钱能自用,其他都以各种名义给了政府!我至今不敢换...
评分 评分图书标签: 北欧 文化 旅行 英文原版 欧洲 travelling 英文版 文化之旅
As heard on Book of the Week, Radio 4
The whole world wants to learn the secrets of Nordic exceptionalism: why are the Danes the happiest people in the world, despite having the highest taxes? If the Finns really have the best education system, how come they still think all Swedish men are gay? Are the Icelanders really feral? How are the Norwegians spending their fantastical oil wealth? And why do all of them hate the Swedes?
Michael Booth has lived among the Scandinavians, on and off, for over ten years, perplexed by their many strange paradoxes and character traits and equally bemused by the unquestioning enthusiasm for all things Nordic that has engulfed the rest of the world, whether it be for their food, television, social systems or chunky knitwear.
In this timely book he leaves his adopted home of Denmark and embarks on a journey through all five of the Nordic countries to discover who these curious tribes are, the secrets of their success and, most intriguing of all, what they think of each other. Along the way a more nuanced, often darker picture emerges of a region plagued by taboos, characterised by suffocating parochialism and populated by extremists of various shades.
They may very well be almost nearly perfect, but it isn't easy being Scandinavian.
读完对北欧已无爱。。。
评分因为他和我一样都是住在丹麦的外国人,所以很多观察对我来说都很“亲切”。有时候也会想如果是一个北欧人来写这本书又会是个什么样子,但北欧人自己又真的能理解自己吗?
评分我那群美艳到窒息乐观到极致有钱却只用来饮酒作乐的斯堪的纳维亚朋友,可能她们自己都解释不出来为什么北欧民族性格是这样的,但是这本书能解释,书里不仅有大量信息可以掉书袋,还有很多段子能逗逼。
评分读了瑞典部分。作者轻松戏谑,想了解点知识的还是看别的故事书吧。
评分撕开了北欧幸福平等经济发达社会和谐的外皮,让读者看到了一个更真实多面的北欧。福利社会的未来,移民问题,右翼政党的得势,鼓励中庸的社会常规,讨论的都是很复杂的问题,引述多方观点,没有清楚明白的答案,让强迫症有点难受。
The Almost Nearly Perfect People 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书