Rules, Britania

My DH just bought this book (we are moving to UK in early 2007) and it is AMAZING! I truly cannot say enough about this book. Its broken into chapters such as dining, words not to say (and how the Brits pronounce it), social graces at events like weddings and funerals, driving and transportation... it will stay in our carry on bag on our trip over for sure!

i bought a similar book called "Watching the English" by Kate Fox.  i haven't read much of it yet but it has things like humour rules, grooming rules, dress codes, the weather, rules of sex, etc.

it's in my queue of books to read...but it keeps getting pushed further down the list.  maybe i should consider moving up to the top of the list so i can make some sense of all this....   

i bought a similar book called "Watching the English" by Kate Fox. 

I thought it was a good read...

I'm reading "Watching the English" right now.  Some of it is hysterical because they are things that you run into on a daily basis.  The sections that discuss queing are pretty accurate.  One thing, though, is that it is a very class driven book in the sense that she is always saying, 'the upper-middles do this, the lower classes do that, the upper classes....blah, blah' and I wasn't sure how to take that.  Is it a common concern to know what class someone fits into?  Seems a bit pretencious.

Well, the book is written from a non-fiction anthropological point of view, not as entertainment.  Some parts of it are quite dry & tedious, but then others are humourous as they hit close to home.  Even if you can't read the whole thing cover-to-cover, it's a good read.

It is definately a good read.  I find myself reading some of the funnier passages to my British boyfriend during our long phone calls.  He finds it quite humorous too.  Like you said, though, it does get quite dry at parts so you need to remind yourself that it is a work of scientific non-fiction!