Help me find this travel commentary!
March 2, 2009 2:53 PM Subscribe
Help me find this travel commentary!
About ten years ago NPR reviewed a book by a European (possibly French?) author about the European counterpart to American fascination with "quaint" European villages and towns. According to this author, Europeans are transfixed by the ubiquitous McDonald's and the identical layout of hotel and motel rooms across the country. Apparently, he and his travel companions made a game of always finding the light-switches in every hotel room without searching, because those switches were always in roughly the same spot.
The book may have been an attempt to retrace de Tocqueville's steps, though I'm not certain that was part of the book or part of NPR's comment.
I need to cite this book for an essay I'm writing. Can anyone recall the author or title?
My fingers are so tightly crossed!!
About ten years ago NPR reviewed a book by a European (possibly French?) author about the European counterpart to American fascination with "quaint" European villages and towns. According to this author, Europeans are transfixed by the ubiquitous McDonald's and the identical layout of hotel and motel rooms across the country. Apparently, he and his travel companions made a game of always finding the light-switches in every hotel room without searching, because those switches were always in roughly the same spot.
The book may have been an attempt to retrace de Tocqueville's steps, though I'm not certain that was part of the book or part of NPR's comment.
I need to cite this book for an essay I'm writing. Can anyone recall the author or title?
My fingers are so tightly crossed!!
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posted by The corpse in the library at 3:38 PM on March 2, 2009