A Marmac Guide to Dallas [Paperback]

Yves Gerem (Author), Larisa Gerem (Author), Marmac (Corporate Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1999 | Series: Marmac Guide to Dallas

Everything truly is bigger and better in Dallas. In this guide, the listings for hotels, restaurants, and attractions are bigger and better, too, as are the features on various neighborhoods. Whether visiting Dallas on a business trip or relocating, anyone may improve his stay with this wealth of information.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Dallas is one of the ten largest cities in the United States, yet it is not included in the major travel guide series such as Fodor's, Frommer's, etc. (with one exception, Dallas Uncovered, Seaside Pr., 1998). This title, the eighth in the "Marmac" series on cities, helps to fill this void. Gerem (Open Road's Moscow Guide) provides detailed descriptions for all the hotels and restaurants, performing arts, special events, sights, etc., listed. In addition, sections on self-guided tours, excursions outside the city, and new residents have been included. URLs for the homepages of some of the listings are provided, but more could have been included. This well-organized guide will aid visitors as well as new inhabitants of the city of Dallas. Recommended for all public libraries.AJohn J. McCormick, New Hampshire State Lib., Concord
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From the Back Cover

Here is the guide to Dallas as big as the city itself. Longtime Dallas resident and travel writer Yves Gerem has completely updated this exhaustive listing of the best restaurants, attractions, accommodations, and more. Some of his discoveries include Arthur's, which serves up a "swooningly wonderful" tenderloin fillet, according to D Magazine Hotel ZaZa, a unique and exotic boutique hotel named one of the Best New Business Hotels of 2002 by www.Forbes.com The Conspiracy Museum, located across the street from the John F. Kennedy Memorial, one block away from his assassination site Additional comprehensive descriptions of hotels, restaurants, attractions, and neighborhoods will appeal to those with a zest for the best, while histories, anecdotes, and trivia tidbits will educate as well as entertain. With detailed maps, self-guided city tours, and a wealth of relocation information, the Marmac Guides are written especially for tourists, business travelers, and new residents. A Marmac Guide to Dallas will make the city feel as comfortable as a favorite pair of cowboy boots. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 346 pages
• Publisher: Pelican Pub Co Inc (July 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1565544072
• ISBN-13: 978-1565544079
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,330,678 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Terribly deficient, June 4, 2006

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Phillip M. Davis - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Marmac Guide to Dallas, A (Marmac Guides) (Paperback)

This book is the perfect example of what can happen when publisher's deadlines rush the author, resulting in a poor end product. Further, the editing in this guide seems to be sorely lacking. The book is full of gramattical errors and irregular sentences, many in broken English.

All of these problems could be overlooked if the guide accomplished what it claims. One glaring example of the haphazard organization of this work is the utter lack of clearly useful information and the inclusion of near worthless facts. For example, the "New Residents" section of the guide includes an odd commentary on Texas' Concealed Carry law while information relating to cable, phone, and internet service is absent. In the "Restaurants" section, there is only one Tex-Mex restaurant listed. That's right; one Tex-Mex restaurant merits listing in a city that is 40% hispanic, with a higher number of restaurants per capita than any other city in America.

Then, there are the factual errors. The guide states that teenagers who get driver's licenses in Texas can only drive to and from home, and then, only when someone over 21 is riding with them. If only this were the case. The fact that this is factually incorrect is excusable; the fact that this is included in a guide to Dallas is utterly incomprehensible.

Finally, the author of this guide seems to have a very negative opinion of Dallas. Whether this is a byass of the author or the intent of the Atlanta-based publisher is unknown. However, when the author states or quotes that Dallas is an "ugly city," that Dallas has "severe racial problems," and that Dallas is "utterly flat," it should indicate that perhaps someone with a more neutral stance should write a guide to the city.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars DALLAS, May 9, 2006

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Shannon Deason (Houston) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Marmac Guide to Dallas, A (Marmac Guides) (Paperback)

This is a very comprehensive guide: it really disects Dallas. There is even a section on street names and their origins! I am very familiar with Dallas and was impressed with how well this guide gets Dallas, especially the shopping section, which quite frankly to Dallas natives is a full contact sport. The discriptions on Northpark and the Galleria, as well as Highland Park Village is very good. The section on hotels and restaurants is also excellent. I really can't think of an area not covered in this guide, whether you are on your first visit to Big D or a native, this guide will not disappoint and you'll learn a great deal about this singular city.