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Paris Revealed: The Secret Life Of A City (2011)

by Stephen Clarke(Favorite Author)

3.69 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0593067118 (ISBN13: 9780593067116)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Bantam Press

review 1: Amusing insight into Parisian lifestyle, culture, and geography. Highly recommended to anyone travelling to Paris for the first time. This is not your typical guide book with lists of hotels, restaurants, and museums; rather, it is an exploration of neighbourhoods and Paris quirks that will allow you to better plan your trip and better understand things that you encounter in the city. Well written and engaging, this is light-hearted and easy to read.
review 2: Very readable, witty and fun little book. Mixing odd bits of history, personal recollections and informed, yet easily laid out introduction into various aspect of Paris and life of the city. It is of course as much different from typical tourist guide as possible, but thats exactly what reader expect f... morerom this sort of book: its a difference between talk with someone from travel agency and somebody, who lives in Paris and enjoy talk about it. Slight downside: some parts, mostly in second half of book seems and read as if written in "journalist on assigment" mode. They are still interesting, skillfully told, but yet it seems that they are there because "it ought to be in that book". This being my first book by Stephen Clarke, I cannot comment on how it compares with his (in)famous "Merde" fictions, but they are looking even more tempting to read now. And 1000 years of annoying French perhpas even more. less

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