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Most Beautiful Walk In The World: A Pedestrian In Paris (2012)

by John Baxter(Favorite Author)

3.45 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1780720432 (ISBN13: 9781780720432)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Short Books

review 1: This is the first John Baxter book I read (at the recommendation of a friend) and I began reading it just before my first trip to Paris. It's where I first encountered John's wonderful writing style that takes the reader on the journey with him. There's a realness that I really enjoy and the addition of humour just builds on the package. I particularly liked the interweaving of history and developed a fondness for Paris past that was satisfied by visiting Paris today.
review 2: If you can get past the author's arrogance, you find that about half of the book isn't about Paris or people in Paris at all. The first bit was devoted to deriding those poor souls who, wearing their beige raincoat and comfortable shoes, consult a map during their walk in Paris. What t... morehe hell does Baxter want them to wear? A Chanel suit and four-inch spiked heels? And what better way to figure out which direction to walk in than to consult a map? He seems to simply look down his nose at anyone who doesn't know his way around the city. And he seems to think this is something unique to Paris, as if no one wears comfortable shoes or carries a map when they first visit New York, London, or Barcelona. Before you read about Paris, you learn that Baxter lives in the building where some famous person (I forget who, Sylvia Beach, maybe?) lived. And so-and-so lived down the street, another lived across the road, etc. Baxter doesn't need a map because he lives in Paris. I wonder if he needed a map when he first arrived. Probably not. He is married to a French woman and his mother-in-law lives in a Chateau somewhere out of town. Is this giving you an interesting impression of Paris?Baxter does finally get around to including the city and tells some stories and anecdotes of interest. I finished the book while in Avignon for a few days and left the book in my hotel room for someone else to slog through. Maybe that person will like the book better than I did. less

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