Download or read book How to be an Alien written by George Mikes and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1973-07-26 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Mikes says, 'the English have no soul; they have the understatement instead.' But they do have a sense of humour - they provide it by buying over three hundred thousand copies of a book that took them quietly and completely apart, a book that really took the Mikes out of them.