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    <body><![CDATA[In this second book of a series, we meet Englishman, Paul West, moderately successful advertising executive, who went to France for a job as the liaison for a Paris based, French company trying to break into the English market. He spends a year dodging French office politics, trying to improve Engli...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72290978">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Paul West returns, still living in France, his French much improved, but still not good enough to tell tea bags from bath salts, flat tires from pure exhaustion, and without the knowledge to properly translate his menu items to get the French government off his back.<br/><br/>Paul is even less luc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71226652">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Most novels about Anglo expats in Paris tend to fall back on the same handful of cliches. &quot;A Year in the Merde&quot; ignored all of these to forge new ones, which &quot;In the Merde for Love&quot; continues to do. But I think &quot;In the Merde for Love&quot; is a more character-driven, and as ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/902688">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first book &quot;A year in The Merde&quot; was great. Pointing a direct finger at all Parisian habits. The second book deserves just a shrug. A character driven love story set in France. Although funny- it's a story and does not maintain the stand up comedian wittiness of book #1.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not quite as funny as the first book, but still an entertaining look at life in France for an ex-pat Englishman.  Paul is simultaneously attempting to win back an old girlfriend, open an English tea room in Paris, and decipher the mysteries of French life, with hilarious misunderstandings along the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63901573">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked this up on my recent trip to Washington. It's about a British man and his adventures living in France with French women and trying to set up a British tea salon.  There were some moments that literally caused me to laugh out loud, which is somewhat emabarrassing when you're waiting for your...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14047253">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[So funny, I loved Clarke's writing style and was amused throughout the book.  Just the right balance of quirky anectdotes, cultural observations and relationship antics.  Nice to read a love story from a dude's point of view, less obnoxious overanalyzing and whatnot ;)<br/><br/>Bonus points for a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32807127">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This may be my last read in Clarke's Merde series.  I thought A Year In the Merde was laugh-out-loud funny.  While this sequel was still entertaining, it was too much of a rehashing of the same plot devices.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A Brit living in Paris...funny...but you know how I love Paris :)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I like this series of books about &quot;paul's&quot; experiences in Paris.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this book had me laughing out loud at the protagonist brit's observations on life in france.  but it got a little angsty in the final third, which dropped it down a star (really should be a star and a half... otis, when are you going to implement half stars - it was my first feature request :)  <br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23288752">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In the Merde for Love is a thoroughly disappointing book full of unoriginal stereotypes about the French. I was embarrassed to be reading it while in France and wouldn't recommend it to anyone, especially people who love the country and the people who live there. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A nice fun follow-up to Clarke's first book. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[fun poke at all things French<br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Laugh out loud lines in parts, though reasonably mindless in the majority - a sort of boy-lit adventure into relationships. Very similar to the first &quot;A Year in the Merde&quot; though not quite as sharp.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read <em>A Year In The Merde</em> last year and really enjoyed it.  I'm a bit of a Francophile, so it was interesting to see France from a Brit's perspective.  This sequel was just as enjoyable as the first.  I just love his writing style - he has a great sense of humor.  I look forward to the next book, w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4338986">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the second book I've read by this author.  The first one &quot;A Year in the Merde,&quot; was really great.  This second book started off really funny but began to drag as I got further into it.  As the title implies, this time the author's focus is more on his love life and a bit on the Eng...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1553864">more...</a>]]></body>
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