As The Italian Government puts a limit on the number of tourists to Venice, to protect it from destruction and pollution, an American consortium (McBigBite and Pshht Cola) build beside the real Venice a "Second Venice" which is "bigger and better". This book is the ludicrous story of life in this fake Venice. With its fake canals and gondolas, its fake museums and fake paintings, its "Fake Films" festival, congresses and college and dog shows, the Second Venice attracts a sizeable tourist crowd to compete with the real Venice. Spy stories and thieves as well as heated discussions in its pubs, among tourists of various nationalities add a spice to this marvelous humoristic masterpiece. Finally, a sheikh buys The Second Venice at a bargain price, kidnapping the daughter of a friendly family - a major shareholder of the city. Chapter after chapter this book will make you laugh and will be a pleasant addition to your "humor" library.
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Prof(Hon.) Architect Askin Ozcan is a master of humor. He has lived and worked in nine countries and travelled extensively in Europe and North America. His humor is therefore "international". He is also the author of many serious articles published internationally and of SMALL MIRACLES, a collection of unusual personal experiences which confirm the existence of God, which will soon be published.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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The very definition of vanity publishing,
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I found this on Amazon and bought it because the central conceit was appealing - Venice has got so crowded that two American multinationals decide to build a second, bigger, Venice on the mainland. But having an idea and turning it into a readable and coherent novel are, as this book proves, two very different things. The writing is just plain bad, the narrative structure non-existent, and there are some weird recurring obsessions on view - AIDS, national characteristics (especially concentrated on Swedish women) and Arabs. But a frown-inducing quote will paint a thousand words, as it were...
'Swedish girls were not getting their share of Italian men at all, as no Italian man was showing interest in them, especially at a time when AIDS was spreading. Many Italian men having married earlier with Swedish girls and having divorced after some years, had spread enough news around, and those ice-cube-looking Swedish blondes who hoped to get an Italian man for a night or two, were returning home, empty handed, at night.'
3 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Very Entertaining,
This review is from: The Second Venice (Paperback)
I just finished reading the Second Venice and I found it very
entertaining and original.This is a very good subject for writing a movie scenario.I am glad,I took a chance and bought the book.
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