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.
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.
發表於2024-06-01
The Almost Nearly Perfect People 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載
我樂此不疲講的一個奚落英國人的笑話,是Maggie告訴我的。當年她在倫敦駐站,上班的時候擠地鐵,溫文爾雅禮貌大方的Maggie小姐要下車的時候,對身邊一位英國大媽說“Excuse me”,當時地鐵上人稍微多瞭一點(大概也就是北京六號綫的十分之一吧),結果大媽一皺眉頭,一口倫敦腔...
評分英國人邁剋爾•布斯的這本《北歐,冰與火之地的尋真之旅》與法國人西爾萬•泰鬆的遊記作品《在西伯利亞森林中》有很多類似的地方。兩本書的作者都是以一個“嚮往者”的身份,踏上瞭自己並不曾涉足過的土地,去直觀地感受自己渴慕已久的“幸福生活”。而二者到最後有多少...
評分 評分北歐人是全世界最幸福的人,他們信任他人,生活成功,當我們麵對他們,一種直覺的反應是想要挑刺,想用X射綫透視他們的破綻。我在寫作本書期間,也不能完全剋製這種衝動。但是,北歐讀者如果看到這本書,請你們原諒。就當我是嫉妒吧,如果這樣可以讓你們心裏好受一點兒。
圖書標籤: 北歐 文化 旅行 英文原版 歐洲 travelling 英文版 文化之旅
看瞭introduction和iceland部分。本書是一本關於北歐各國的社會隨筆&雜感類文章集閤,作者傳遞的信息量並不大,價值也有限。
評分讀完瞭,寫得真好,文字幽默且信息量大。
評分英國人的吐槽真是逆天… 話說作者一開始的動機應該是為瞭吐槽丹麥吧,後來怕被老婆打死纔擴展到瞭北歐五國?
評分我那群美艷到窒息樂觀到極緻有錢卻隻用來飲酒作樂的斯堪的納維亞朋友,可能她們自己都解釋不齣來為什麼北歐民族性格是這樣的,但是這本書能解釋,書裏不僅有大量信息可以掉書袋,還有很多段子能逗逼。
評分重溫瞭北歐旅行的感覺,跟著作者走馬觀花瞭一番。
The Almost Nearly Perfect People 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載