- Taschenbuch: 204 Seiten
- Verlag: Chronicle Books (28. September 2006)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0811856194
- ISBN-13: 978-0811856195
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 19,6 x 12,7 x 1,8 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.5 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (2 Kundenrezensionen)
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Riding on the heels of the hilarious send-ups Molvania: A Land Untouched by Modern Dentistry and Phaic Tăn: Sunstroke on a Shoestring, comes San Sombrero. The people of San Sombrero are an outgoing, talkative, and sociable bunch, which perhaps explains why so few have succeeded as spies. Laughing comes naturally to them, and it's not unusual to see large groups of people doubled over with laughter, even in court or during a funeral. Often described as 'the Venice of Central America' (due to the fact that many of its coastal cities are sinking), the sun-baked island of San Sombrero offers something for everyone, be they music lover, eco-tourist, history buff, or UN Human Rights Commissioner. From the frenetic nightlife of its capital Cucaracha City to the guaranteed solitude of a west coast beach during sea-snake season, there's simply so much to see and do in this undiscovered tropical jewel.
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Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner, and Rob Sitch are founding members of Working Dog, one of Australia's most successful creative partnerships. They've collaborated on top-rated television shows, feature films, and books, including Phaic Tan.
Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner, and Rob Sitch are founding members of Working Dog, one of Australia's most successful creative partnerships. They've collaborated on top-rated television shows, feature films, and books, including Phaic Tan.
Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner, and Rob Sitch are founding members of Working Dog, one of Australia's most successful creative partnerships. They've collaborated on top-rated television shows, feature films, and books, including Phaic Tan.
Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner, and Rob Sitch are founding members of Working Dog, one of Australia's most successful creative partnerships. They've collaborated on top-rated television shows, feature films, and books, including Phaic Tan.
Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner, and Rob Sitch are founding members of Working Dog, one of Australia's most successful creative partnerships. They've collaborated on top-rated television shows, feature films, and books, including Phaic Tan.
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Dieses nunmehr dritte Buch der Serie kann m.E. leider nicht mit seinen Vorgängern Schritt halten.
Inwiefern das gegebenenfalls der Tatsache geschuldet ist, daß ich bis dato noch nicht in Lateinamerika war, kann ich nicht beurteilen.
Inwiefern das gegebenenfalls der Tatsache geschuldet ist, daß ich bis dato noch nicht in Lateinamerika war, kann ich nicht beurteilen.
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If this is your first trip to San Sombrero do buy this invaluable guide to get the (very) low down on the Central American paradise. The guide really does reveal all and in the style that you'll be familiar with from other guidebooks: color photos, city maps, vital hotel and where to eat out info, bold type text for things to do and look out for.
Seasoned travellers might think I've seen all this before though. This latest satire hasn't really moved on from 'Phaic Tan', still very funny and stylish looking but hardly new. But wait. There's more! Inserted in the back flap is a classy looking thirty-page brochure: the Jetlag 'Hot Guide'. Looking just like one of those glossy mags found in suites of up-market city hotels. Arty photos and vacuous copy describe what well-heeled should spend their money on and possibly drink because the back cover has an ad for Uzbekistan's finest vodka.
The Jetlag folk have produced another (similar) winner with San Sombrero but I hope the next fake goes for something completely different, maybe a cruise line brochure or a complete city guide.
Seasoned travellers might think I've seen all this before though. This latest satire hasn't really moved on from 'Phaic Tan', still very funny and stylish looking but hardly new. But wait. There's more! Inserted in the back flap is a classy looking thirty-page brochure: the Jetlag 'Hot Guide'. Looking just like one of those glossy mags found in suites of up-market city hotels. Arty photos and vacuous copy describe what well-heeled should spend their money on and possibly drink because the back cover has an ad for Uzbekistan's finest vodka.
The Jetlag folk have produced another (similar) winner with San Sombrero but I hope the next fake goes for something completely different, maybe a cruise line brochure or a complete city guide.
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be warned
27. Februar 2007
Format:Taschenbuch
Look, we don't know each other. I may be an inveterate exaggerator, right? I might give all fives on my Amazon reviews. I might detest conflict and only say nice things about books.
You don't know, do you?
So let me assure you that none of those things is true, because I'm going to make a statement that might seem ludicrous: SAN SOMBRERO is one of the funniest things I've ever read. My wife thinks so, too, and we don't agree on very much. Even my Rhodesian Ridgeback seems particularly jaunty when I'm reading SAN SOMBRERO.
An Aussie friend introduced me to the Jet Lag travel guide spoofs. SAN SOMBRERO is actually the third in a series but the first I've read. It doesn't matter where you begin, but - if you have ever read a serious travel guide of any kind (say, Frommers, Rough Guide, etc.) - then you'll *love* what these lunatics do with the genre.
SAN SOMBRERO is roughly based on Costa Rica, Cuba, and any number of other Latin American 'travel paradise' locations. Each time you think the authors have exhausted their uproarious takes on one of the conventional aspects of the genre, you turn a page and they hit you again.
It's inexhaustibly entertaining, right up to the 'insert' at the back of the book.
I can't wait to read PHAIC TAN and MOLVANIA.
Aussies, all is forgiven, even your abysmal cricket side and the freakin' long airplane rides it takes to get where you are. You can come home now and rejoin the family of nations.
You don't know, do you?
So let me assure you that none of those things is true, because I'm going to make a statement that might seem ludicrous: SAN SOMBRERO is one of the funniest things I've ever read. My wife thinks so, too, and we don't agree on very much. Even my Rhodesian Ridgeback seems particularly jaunty when I'm reading SAN SOMBRERO.
An Aussie friend introduced me to the Jet Lag travel guide spoofs. SAN SOMBRERO is actually the third in a series but the first I've read. It doesn't matter where you begin, but - if you have ever read a serious travel guide of any kind (say, Frommers, Rough Guide, etc.) - then you'll *love* what these lunatics do with the genre.
SAN SOMBRERO is roughly based on Costa Rica, Cuba, and any number of other Latin American 'travel paradise' locations. Each time you think the authors have exhausted their uproarious takes on one of the conventional aspects of the genre, you turn a page and they hit you again.
It's inexhaustibly entertaining, right up to the 'insert' at the back of the book.
I can't wait to read PHAIC TAN and MOLVANIA.
Aussies, all is forgiven, even your abysmal cricket side and the freakin' long airplane rides it takes to get where you are. You can come home now and rejoin the family of nations.
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brilliant parody of Latin America travel guides
29. Dezember 2006
Format:Taschenbuch
I don't go out of my way looking for comedy, but I found this in my parents' collection during a visit back home. Probably the more familiar you are with Latin America travel guides, the more you'll appreciate this book, which exaggerates the dangers of travel (disease, political unrest, insects, street food), and desperate living conditions, etc. as much as the guide books tend to downplay these conditions. This book is funny to me because rather than being absurd, it is loosely based on the (sometimes frightening) truth. The book is well-designed and illustrated- if you just looked at the pictures, you wouldn't know it wasn't a real guide book. Following are some excerpts (which are by no means highlights, as the humor is relentless):
"Be very suspicious about taking a ride in a cab where a 'friend' is accompanying the driver. San Sombreran taxi drivers don't have friends."
"San Sombrerans are passionate movie-goers, possibly because cinemas are the only air-condition buildings in town."
"Political instability has seen 17 different presidents take power in the past decade, the shortest reign being that of Alivio Escrevez who was assassinated halfways through his own inauguration speech."
"Be very suspicious about taking a ride in a cab where a 'friend' is accompanying the driver. San Sombreran taxi drivers don't have friends."
"San Sombrerans are passionate movie-goers, possibly because cinemas are the only air-condition buildings in town."
"Political instability has seen 17 different presidents take power in the past decade, the shortest reign being that of Alivio Escrevez who was assassinated halfways through his own inauguration speech."
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Another great book in the series
28. August 2007
Format:Taschenbuch
While not quite as good as the first book on Molvania, San Sombrero is still a fun book and well worth the time to read it. It makes you even want to read the restaurant and hotel information for the twist they manage to work into them. Vive San Sombrero! Vive (insert name here), el Presidente!
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