In Our Own (1st edition: 2003), the reader will enjoy texts that, with the author’s disarming style, illustrate the entirety of modern Greek madness. From the zeibekiko and Kazantzidis to the Stock Exchange and television, from the "scabies" of feng shui and westerns to unemployment and football, from the faux glamour of the nouveaux riches and the escorts to the real heroes next door, Charitopoulos spares no one and nothing.

The new edition includes an extensive interview with the author, during which, prompted by "Aris, the leader of the unruly," he talks about the power a book can have and the storm that its publication has stirred. With abyssal, often dark humor and a proven ability to discern the chaff from the wheat, the author mercilessly parodies modern life. A book with an essayistic discourse that reads like a novel about contemporary Greece.

Aphorisms, like those found in the pages of the Manual of Stupidity, are also present here. Here are a few: 1. The zeibekiko is like the "Our Father." You said it all in one go. 2. The mechanisms of dulness always precede the mechanisms of consumption. 3. Career is the modern valley of tears. 4. Greeks listened to Theodorakis and Hatzidakis, but sang Kazantzidis.

But the book draws its greatest interest from the texts themselves. Here are some indicative examples: 1 (About the Left): The Left means altruism; a word that is close to being exiled from dictionaries, let alone from people's lives. And being leftist is a way of life with continuity and consistency; it is not a specialty acquired in youth or redeemable experience. As someone said, "just because the Wall fell, doesn’t mean I’ll become a scoundrel too." 2 (About football): There is no fan who buys a ticket. We are all supporters. No one goes to the stadium with a cold eye. A match without passion cannot happen. Emotional investment is of a serious nature. The team is an extension of yourself; it can disappoint you, make you burst, drive you crazy, but you will never betray it. May the team do well, and all others can crumble.

3 (About unemployment): Among all the vices a man may carry, nothing is more unbearable than going home empty-handed. How many women have not endured lifelong worthless husbands, violent or unfaithful, just because they supported the family. The man's defeat is overwhelming. Prolonged unemployment severely wounds his psyche; it nullifies him as an active existence. The reduction he undergoes is never strictly economic; he is consumed by feelings of self-depreciation and inadequacy compared to other men. He feels he is falling in the eyes of his wife and children. He ends up a stranger in his own home. Words of comfort only exacerbate the feeling of inferiority; a man needs respect, not pity.