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Title: Paris Out of Hand by Karen Elizabeth Gordon, Barbara Hodgson, Nick Bantock ISBN: 0-8118-0969-2 Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1996 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.71 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Seductive, surreal and humourous
Comment: This imaginary guide to Paris is full of surreal imagination that will just make you smile. Helpfully divided up into sections on hotels, restaurants, the nightlife, sights, etc., you'll read about places and services you've never dreamed of! What a shame, they don't really exist! Peppered thoughout the text are helpful French expressions translated into English such as "Do you have a ladder so I can reach your airmail clerk suspended from the ceiling?" You can read some guest comments for the hotels which of course, are also bizarre, and learn about special services such as a kidnapping service or a food tasting service (so you don't get poisoned). The book has some quotes from real people too and the lavish artwork gives it an other worldly feel. It will transport you immediately to a wonderful alternative reality Paris.
Rating: 4
Summary: Beautiful, Intriguing. . .
Comment: This book is a georgous book, from its looks (plush cover, ribbon bookmark, illustrations) to its content. It describes a slew of fictional places (and a few non-fictional) creating a surrealistic, dreamlike landscape. As nice as it is, this isn't a sit down and read sort of book, more of a coffee table type, wonderful to flip through and see what you find.
Rating: 5
Summary: Dreams Guaranteed, Nightmares Extinguished
Comment: There's a reason why this little book is subtitled "a wayward guide." The inverted Eiffel Tower on the cover should be a warning to those of faint imagination, that this book is not your father's Fodor Guide. Rather, Paris Out of Hand, is a handy guide to the hotels with fold-down balconies, volume controls on the phones for those who don't speak French, and turn-down services which leave a fish on your pillow. It is full of helpful French phrases, so you will never be caught short not knowing how to ask: "Do you come to this noctambupark often? Are the bats given annual rabies shots?" ("Venez-vous souvent a ce noctambuparc? Est-ce que les chauves-souris recoivent leurs piqures de rage annuelle?") It is loaded with delightful factoids such as: "Some Parisians don't have sheepskin covers for car seats, but drive around with live sheep in the laps. Thus 'Revenons a nos moutons!' is also the cry of the man roaming the levels of the parking structure in search of his bleating Peugeot." It's liberally illustrated with wondrous and slightly mad collages as fascinating as the prose.
If you cherish journeys of the mind, then this book is for you.
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Title: The Tattooed Map by Barbara Hodgson ISBN: 0811808173 Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1995 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Morning Star by Nick Bantock ISBN: 081183199X Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Hippolyte's Island by Barbara Hodgson ISBN: 0811828921 Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Alexandria: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Unfolds by Nick Bantock ISBN: 081183140X Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Secrets of Pistoulet: An Enchanted Fable of Food, Magic, and Love by Jana Kolpen ISBN: 1556704402 Publisher: Stewart, Tabori, & Chang Pub. Date: 01 March, 1996 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
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