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La Seduction: How the French Play the Game of Life ReviewThey say it's difficult to see the warts and wrinkles of your own culture until you travel, exposure to other cultures being an eye-opening experience. Since I can't travel as much as I like, I enjoy reading books by those living abroad. In this book Elaine Sciolino attempts to explain virtually everything we see as different about French life and culture thru the lens of "seduction". While there are some rewarding parts to this book I came away with the sense the book illustrates the maxim "to a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail". If you water a term down enough it can encompass almost everything, but I didn't come away from reading this thinking that I'd learned what makes French culture distinctive nor would I ever quote the idea to friends in conversation the way one might mention the thesis after reading "Blink" or "Checklist Manifesto".
Furthermore Sciolino is not just any American living abroad, but someone who was a prominent journalist. The last third of the book capitalizes on this past to get interviews with current and former heads of the French government. Sciolino weaves the book theme of seduction into this portion as well but it seemed a bit disjoint from the rest of the story. While books by Americans living for an extended time in France by Polly Platt or Adam Gopnik, for example, describe life as seen from a vantage that many people could envision as at least plausible for themselves too, sitting down with heads of the French government is not an experience many of us see in our future. For my money, I thought I got more out of the books by Gopnik and Platt than I did from this book.La Seduction: How the French Play the Game of Life OverviewThe hidden truth about the French way of life: it's all about seduction—its rules, its pleasures, its secretsFrance is a seductive country, seductive in its elegance, its beauty, its sensual pleasures, and its joie de vivre. But Elaine Sciolino, the longtime Paris bureau chief of The New York Times, has discovered that seduction is much more than a game to the French: it is the key to understanding France.Seduction plays a crucial role in how the French relate to one another—not just in romantic relationships but also in how they conduct business, enjoy food and drink, define style, engage in intellectual debate, elect politicians, and project power around the world. While sexual repartee and conquest remain at the heart of seduction, for the French seduction has become a philosophy of life, even an ideology, that can confuse outsiders. In La Seduction, Sciolino gives us an inside view of how seduction works in all areas, analyzing its limits as well as its power. She demystifies the French way of life in an entertaining and personal narrative that carries us from the neighborhood shops of Paris to the halls of government, from the gardens of Versailles to the agricultural heartland.La Seduction will charm you and encourage you to lower your defenses about the French. Pull up a chair and let Elaine Sciolino seduce you.

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