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The Most Beautiful Walk In The World: A Pedestrian In Paris (2011)

by John Baxter(Favorite Author)

3.45 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0061998540 (ISBN13: 9780061998546)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Harper Perennial

review 1: Well, it sounded good. Aussie fellow meets French girl and moves to Paris with her, finds happiness and after living in and learning much about Paris, enjoys sharing that with visitors as a tour guide. Uh huh...what we get is a self-obsessed name-dropping bloviator, who, if forced to look at others in any way other than down his nose would be totally blind. Never met an American tourist he didn't think bumptious and provincial, from the "3 fat ladies from Texas" to the "teacher from Ohio" - can you imagine, my God! a teacher, and from Ohio no less! thinking to get sophisicated by coming to Paris and then going home to tell about it. And sadly, by the end of the book, he'd made Paris seem a pretty repellant place, outrageously expensive, inhabited largely by con artists and... more mountebanks bent on separating you from as much of your money as possible...altho' the streets are a pure pleasure to stroll through. I have no idea if anything he said is true, but I have a good idea that it wouldn't be enjoyable to go and find out. I think I liked Paris (or the idea of it) a lot better before I read this...
review 2: важко назвати книжку путівником по Парижу географічному, це швидше путівник по Парижу ментальному, де місце на карті - привід розповісти, яким воно було раніше і чим жило. загалом дуже класна книжка з тих, які я люблю - багато цікавих фактів про все на світі)) less

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