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Frommer's Irreverent Guide to Paris

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This book isn't nourishing, but it provides a certain short-lived fun. I wouldn't go as far as "guilty pleasure" fun, as it isn't that naughty or silly, and it certainly doesn't have the quality of a song from your teen years, in that it is possible, quite possible, to get it out of your head; it's more on the order of that annoying kid in your freshman dorm who couldn't stop wisecracking. You snicker, but it's just not particularly useful. My sense is that this book gives you the illusion of being an insider without actually giving you anything particularly clever, to say nothing of anything that you wouldn't get from another more conventional guide-book. It's not a bad book, and the information is correct as far as it goes, but you will get more real scope for your outsider attitude from a close reading of the mainstream Frommer's, and even more from the Eyewitness guides.

The picture on their website is missleading. It is correct for the latest edition, but they sent me the older, out-of-date volume. It was difficult to get a refund, 'cause they insisted that the edition they sent me was as promised. And, only reluctantly, refunded my return postage. Buy.com has the correct volume.