Frommer's Irreverent Guide to New Orleans (2nd Ed) [Paperback]

Guy Leblanc (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1998 | Series: Frommer's Irreverent Guides

A second edition of the candid guide to the attractions of New Orleans. The book contains details on accommodation, food, attractions, nightclubs and shopping, and contains several detailed city and neighbourhood maps.

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As the name implies, Frommer's Irreverent Guides border on the brazen, offering up tidbits such as home addresses for Fats Domino and Anne Rice, the best "dives worth a drive," finding "sexual hardware" in a store with a sense of humor, and where to meet the giant webbed-footed rodents known as nutria. This guide includes the usual traveler's details, as well. In addition to finding out the coolest places in the Big Easy to stay, you'll have answers to interesting questions like, What is zydeco? Who is a true French Creole? And, where do you find voodoo? Grab this book and do as the author urges: visit New Orleans now--it's getting less authentic and more "big-citified" every day. --Kathryn True

From the Back Cover

"Full of solid, insider information with just the right amount of cynicism."
–Travel Savvy magazine

Are you tired of cliché-ridden guidebooks packed with promotional fluff? Then move over to the IRREVERENT GUIDES–the travel series that no tourist board would dare to recommend.

• Hotels, cottages, mansions, hostels, and haunted guest houses
• The best of Mardi Gras, from tame to tawdry
• Where to buy the best pralines and tacky lingerie
• Where to find Dixieland, dead celebrities, and voodoo queens–or talk to Anne Rice
• The only place locals will stand in line for oysters
• And much more!

--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Frommer; 2nd edition (August 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0028624424
• ISBN-13: 978-0028624426
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 4.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,530,178 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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19 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Priceless guide for Weekender Vacation, September 19, 1999

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This review is from: Frommer's Irreverent Guide to New Orleans (2nd Ed) (Paperback)

A friend and I went to New Orleans for 3 days with this book as our compass. It was wonderful. Insightful and honest. Descriptive to the nth degree. It really gives you the low down on food, shopping, lodging, and the different areas of the city and its many attractions. A very enjoyable read.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Quick and easy guide on where to go in the Big Easy!, February 20, 2001

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mirope "mirope" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Frommer's Irreverent Guide to New Orleans (Paperback)

This isn't one of those exhaustive travel books that tells you everything there is to know about a place. Instead, the authors selectively present everything you actually need to know. The dining section was particularly helpful. It wasn't an exhaustive list of restaurants, but it did give you a choice of a few places in each category. The authors were also good about pointing out where the locals go and warning you about the places that are for tourists only. Even better, they distinguish between the tourist places that are all hype and those that are still worth seeing. The maps were helpful, and the book is small enough to fit into a purse or pocket. You will eat well and have a great time in New Orleans with nothing but this book to guide you.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Nothing Irreverent About It..., August 11, 2000

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Patrick Burnett "penngos" (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Frommer's Irreverent Guide to New Orleans (2nd Ed) (Paperback)

While this is a perfectly adequate guidebook (it will give you the address for Brennan's, the current room rate for the Maison Dupuy and the phone number to call for a Swamp Tour), it does itself a disservice by claiming to be irreverent. There is nothing even faintly irreverent about this book. It's basically cribbed from Frommer's non-irreverent guides, thereby shorter and less informative.