The Underground Guide to Los Angeles [Paperback]

Pleasant Gehman (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0916397564 | ISBN-13: 978-0916397562 | Publication Date: March 1999

Travel. THE UNDERGROUND GUIDE TO LOS ANGELES is the ultimate lowdown on the secret splendor and saucy seediness that is Los Angeles, whether your trip is for a day, a week, or the rest of your life. Includes extensive listings of cheap eats, shopping, and entertainment, and all the fabulous details necessary for life among the brazen, bold, and notorious.

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Manic D Pr (March 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0916397564
• ISBN-13: 978-0916397562
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,092,760 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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21 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Indispensible for partying/surviving in LA!, April 18, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Underground Guide to Los Angeles (Paperback)

This book has chapters on music, restaurants, great places to buy clothes, see art, go to thriftstores, etc. I've lived in LA for four years and never even heard of some of these places! The chapters are all fun, too, not boring like regular guide-books. Some are like essays, most are hysterically funny, full of personality. The writers included in this collection are diverse. Some are well-known, some are poets, others, like Rob Zebrecky (of Possum Dixon) are musicians. This would be a good gift for a visitor, or even someone who lives in LA.

10 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Same ol' same ol' - Anything BUT Underground, November 14, 2001

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Gerard Kaszubowski (Elk Grove Village, Illinois United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Underground Guide to Los Angeles (Paperback)

When one hears the word "underground", one usually thinks you are going to get the inside scoop on something or get the unusual, strange or non-ordinary. This book is anything BUT those qualilties.

This LA guide gives you the same ol' sites to see that any other tourist book would....Mann's Chinese Theatre, Universal Studios, Hollywood Walk of Fame. You might get a good reccomendation on where to eat, but that is about it. Nothing too underground about this book.

However, for a tourist book it really isnt bad. Pick it up. Just dont go in with the pre-conceived notion that you are picking up something unusual. it is as good as any other tourist book of L.A.

4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars I was sucked in by the title, but other books offer more, June 22, 2005

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Jessica Lux (Rosamond, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Underground Guide to Los Angeles (Paperback)

This book is a good idea, but even the standard Moon handbook has more hidden out of the way stuff than this one. It's more like a series of essays than a comprehensive guidebook, so you can't turn to a specific area or a specific topic, other than the essay titles. It's best as a guide to restaurants, shops, bars, and coffeehouses, but there are much better ones if that's what you are really after. Everything is treated too quickly to really give the reader a good idea what they are getting into.

I remember one thing in the Hollywood chapter they pointed out was the Pink Dot, a convienence store that delivers. I "had to" go visit it, thinking it was a famous landmark, but it is really just one of a chain of mediocre conveinence stores. I have no idea why it made it into an "underground" guidebook.