The English - Jeremy Paxman Reviews

How would you define being English? What is the essence of ?Englishness?? Seems an easy question to tackle, but the more you think about it, the clearer it becomes that England is no longer a nation of tea drinking, cucumber sandwich-eating shopkeepers and cricket enthusiasts, if it ever was! In this book, Jeremy Paxman digs deep beneath the ...

Somewhat casually, I chose this book as my companion to a long trip to Indonesia. Paxman's does a good job of describing the development of the English character, if this exists, over time. Paxman writes very well and for a holiday, this book is the perfect mix of "easy to read" prose with a good degree of provocative ...

This book talks about being English in a funny way. It is very intelligently and well-written book including history, English language, sex food, how The English see foreigners, English people’s attitudes. To sum up, The English talks about the English stereotypes. In this book, Jeremy Paxman is trying to find answers to the ...

Thsi is certainly one of the cheaper books I had to read for my dissertation, and also probably one of the least academic. Paxman covers a wide range of territory, most of it sadly cliched and hardly innivotive. That said Paxman's range of contacts, sourcesand his dry humuor and highly readable writing style means that it is a book I would ...

I found this book from a review on Dooyoo and went out and bought it for only £4 thanks to shopsmart.com. I usually pour scorn on Paxman for his newsnight antics, but there can be no doubt that this man has a gift. Whether it is just for putting people on the spot or for making witty remarks he is a sheer genius. His book 'The English' is ...

It used to be easy to define the English, they were "polite, unexcitable, reserved, and had hot-water bottles instead of a sex life," so begins Paxman. But then something changed. In this book Paxman asks varous questions about what it means to be English. There have been a spate of such books over the past couple of years as people ...