Customer Reviews

Resident Tourist: Los Angeles

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I've lived in the Los Angeles area for nearly twenty years and don't know how I've kept my head held high at cocktail parties without knowing at least half of the fascinating places stuffed inside this unusually terrific guidebook. I now know where the Brady Bunch house is. I now know where Jim Morrison resided. I also know some pretty great things to do on a week-end. Some of it is just fun reading, while I would actually visit many of the places featured. These writers have a terrific sense of humor as well as seem to have their fingers on the pulse of an interesting Los Angeles. Good job!

I didn't find this funny. I thought it was superficial, sloppy and dumb. The number of places reviewed seems very slight, and their descriptions are overly long, as if they were trying to pad the book.

This book is worth reading if you are looking for something different on your travels in Los Angeles. Read between the lines. There are hidden treasures for activity ideas, while other ideas are just for a good laugh. Even if you aren't going to make it out and about on the books recommendations, it is still a humors read. Ask yourself "Am I jocular" and/or "Am I adventurous" before taking the wild ride... that is... for the resident tourists.

Man, this was a find! This book is as funny as it gets. It isn't a standard tourist guide by any means. There are submissions in this book that would rival the Onion in comedy...and the brilliant thing? They still manage to get all the historic significances and interesting facts about the places they are writing up in the text. Where else can you read about the Cajun Queen in Charlotte, NC in an LA tour guide!? It sure beats the hell out of standard tour guides.

This is a great sampling. I am a hotel concierge and I'm always looking for new/overlooked places to impress the guest who thinks he's done it all. This book has great listings, but doesn't give enough of them. I know things change around here, so keeping up isn't easy. I would like more options per neighborhood.

This is a truly funny book. After living in LA for 10 years, I found some new and interesting places to visit. I never would have found some of these in a standard travel book.

I bought this book because I am leaving LA in a few months after living here for 4 years, and wanted to get the most out of my time left. I am glad I got it. Not only is it worth much more than the price (it's so cheap used!), but the descriptions are quite entertaining.

I do agree with a previous reviewer who disliked the relative paucity of items / places described; I felt there could be more. And some of the chapters read more like magazine articles than tour guides. I also was a bit offended by the first chapter, "Adult Los Angeles." Why did it have to be in the book? Why did it have to be the first chapter? But the other insights and the enthusiasm of the book are useful and compelling. I've enjoyed both reading the book and visiting the places it recommends (besides those of the first chapter, of course).

Perhaps all guide books should be destroyed as soon as they are six months old. I don't know, I just returned to LA after a 16 year absense, and I ordered a bunch of guide books to help me make the best out of this new adventure. This book really doesn't have much to offer.

Amuzingly hilarious as a frequent traveler I found this book to contain insights that most non-beaten path travellers can truly relate to. A must read for anyone who prides themselves on knowing the unknown about quite a few very cool locales in the Los Angeles and San Fernando Valley areas.