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Frommer's Irreverent Guide to Las Vegas

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I often travel with friends. And we all travel extensively for business. We're always looking for an edge on great bets and the real lowdown on a destination. Vegas is a frequent destination for me, for both business and pleasure, and I learned several things I didn't know. This book is jampacked with fun, funny details and really paints a picture of all the hotels, shows, restaurants. Definitely something I'd recommend to friends and family. Thanks!

Simon's Las Vegas guide is full of wit and sparkle, even for Las Vegas locals. A handy reminder of all the great places to go and where to send guests. Makes a great gift too.

As a true Vegas-phile who wants to read everything I can get my hands on to anticipate my next trip, I thoroughly enjoyed this book! The quirky comments about anything and everything Vegas were most refreshing and entertaining. However, the format of commenting about several different spots in one paragraph was a little confusing and made it hard for me to keep in mind just which places I did not want to miss. This book makes an excellent complement to a more traditional Frommer's, Fodor's or Unofficial Guide.

Before heading out to Vegas, I read every Vegas guidebook on the local bookshelf. This one was different and useful. It named a number of off-beat and off-Strip locales overlooked by many of the other guides, places I might have missed. The author was more candid and opinionated than most, making the book useful and entertaining. You should purchase this book even if you find you do also have to purchase one of the larger, more mainstream guides for completeness.

The book is more clever and more hip than the typical travel guides. My only complaint is than there are parts that get redundant when the same place has been reviewed by three critics that give the same information again and again only with a slightly different spin. Better editing could have resolved that problem.

This book is the only book I've seen on Vegas that intelligently asserts that the reader knows that there's kitsch is in Vegas as well as the writers. There is a down-to-earth style about this book which was refreshing after reading other travel books about Vegas that feel like they were written by shills for the casinos.

Las Vegas has never been a place that should be taken seriously in the least!

I liked this book considerably more than the usual tourist guide.

A wealth of info presented from a fresh and cheeky point of view. Jordan Simon clues you in to what Vegas' many promoters don't want you to know, but don't get the idea that this "Irreverent Guide" exists solely to take potshots at the excess that is the essence of Vegas' singular charm; the writer duly awards praise where he thinks praise is warranted. As it happens, I personally have not been to Vegas in about 30 years, but Simon's style pulled me in immediately and I have no doubt his offbeat guide will prove very useful when I do visit.

I have a couple of small quibbles - the info could be presented in more of an outline, organized form, but that's really a minor complaint, as the hip narrative style is very entertaining; and I'd love some photos, but one can get all the Las Vegas one could ever want various places online. If your preferences tend towards the unconventional, this is the Las Vegas guide to get.

this book was helpful only because it was the most recent book printed i could locate(and still not new enough). It is no better than any other book on las vegas i have read (which is about 4). i do like the size and shape however and the print is easy to look at. much of the information is repeated throughout the book 2 or 3 times as it is nicely cross-referenced.

A guide book that tells you were to find hookers...Nuff said...