City Smart: Baltimore [Paperback]

Joe Sugarman (Author)

Book Description

Series: City-Smart Guidebook Baltimore | Publication Date: May 2000

A local shares with readers his favorite things to do in Baltimore and why they are his favorites - whether because they're the most fun, the most economical, or the most bizarre. The guide is packed with amusing sidebars that explain, for example, why Baltimore is called "Charm City" and how to speak "Bawlamorese."

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing; 1st edition (May 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1562615181
• ISBN-13: 978-1562615185
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.1 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,296,113 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Negative Undercurrent, July 28, 2001

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Stephen McHenry (Olney, MD USA) - See all my reviews
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Besides this book, I purchased at the same time The Insiders' Guide to Baltimore, which is $2.00 more and 150 pages longer. I give this City Smart guide 2 stars, compared to a 5 star rating on the Insiders' Guide. The reason for the wide difference in rating the two books: This book, City Smart, is trying to be hip, flippant, and tounge-in-cheek. Instead, it comes off as very negative. I purchased the two books at the same time, read this one first, and when I was done I really wasn't sure I wanted to visit Baltimore. And that would be a mistake because Baltimore is indeed Charm City, and the other book really brings that out. It has a much more upbeat, positive, optimistic, good-natured style; as well as more depth and details in the extra 150 pages. The Insiders' Guide was true to the Baltimore I discovered, this City Smart guide was off-putting and off the mark.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Sugarman, a surname that says it all..., January 5, 2002

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"homonovus" (Italy) - See all my reviews

This review is from: City Smart: Baltimore (Paperback)

This guide is sweet!
Again Joe Sugarman, in a light and appropriate tone for a city guide, points out the best in town... If you want to visit Baltimore without fear of loosing time and wasting money walking in circles: read this guide.
Read it and you will enjoy Baltimore; loose it and you will not be aware of the beauties you're loosing in this marvellous city.

This guide might not be the *most* extensive, but all the info that has been packed in it is selected: I don't want to see everything there is to see - I want to see the *best* there is to see!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book On Baltimore, December 22, 2006

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The Footpath Cowboy "rockerusa2002" (Kingston, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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CITY SMART: BALTIMORE is a great book about Baltimore and its surrounding suburbs, with descriptions of where the best shopping and dining are. However, because the book was written several years ago, the radio listings need to be taken like the humor in AMERICAN WEDDING, SABRINA, THE TEENAGE WITCH, DRIVE ME CRAZY, SIMPLY IRRESISTIBLE, HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER, 13 GOING ON 30, DATE MOVIE, HARVARD MAN, and the two GARFIELD MOVIES featuring Jennifer Love Hewitt. This is a minor quibble, though, because this is an excellent book for anyone interested in the Mid-Atlantic states.