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Watching the English
- The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour
- Narrated by: Joan Walker
- Length: 21 hrs and 13 mins
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Publisher's Summary
In this completely revised and updated edition of international best seller Watching the English, anthropologist Kate Fox takes a revealing look at the quirks, habits and foibles of the English people.
Now with new survey data to add weight to her original fieldwork findings, and more extensive field-research and experiments to back up earlier observations, Kate Fox has deciphered yet more enigmatic behaviour codes, adding new rules, new subcultures, new chapters and more than 100 updates. If you're English, this new edition of Kate Fox's acclaimed international best seller will make you stand back and re-examine everything you take for granted - and if you aren't English you'll finally understand all our peculiar little ways.
Watching the English has sold more than half a million copies and has been translated into many languages. Not only a worldwide best seller, but also a set text for university anthropology courses, Watching the English has been widely praised as a revealing and entertaining dissection of the English national character.
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- Emma
- 09-02-2024
Thoroughly enjoyed
The narrator has the perfect voice, I had to keep reminding myself they weren’t the author. And lots of interesting insights, all expressed in an appropriately meta way.
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- Britpop
- 17-05-2022
Insightful and well documented
As an Englishman in my 40’s living overseas, this was an affirming book to demonstrate why and wherefore of English cultural behaviour. I don’t personally agree with the reviews I’ve read that say it’s boring or un-entertaining. It’s a research based, anthropology. If you want whimsical low brow observations, read ‘Bill Bryson / notes from a small island’.
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- Bin Lu
- 25-02-2022
Disappointed
The narrator’s voice makes this hilarious book a boring , tedious to listen to. I read this book before and was so impressed with the humour of it. Thought I could get a bit fun by listening to it. So disappointed.
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- Hammie
- 29-04-2023
Some interesting points
Some interesting points but the book needs some serious editing: it is highly repetitive and mixes academic observations with subjective opinion. The narration caused me to tune out repeatedly and grated on me at other times.
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