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Title: Lonely Planet Dubai (LONELY PLANET DUBAI) by Richard Plunkett, Lou Callan ISBN: 1-74059-130-5 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: September, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (6 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Dubai not a dump? LP disappointed...
Comment: Lonely Planet is capable of producing very good guides when it tries to cover a destination and not set the world straight. I have seen excellent guides by Lonely Planet, but this is not one of them, unless you wish to read a bit of anti-capitalist rhetoric.
This is not a guidebook to Dubai - this is a guidebook to a city as they would like to see it: as far from civilized world as possible. You can almost see the writers being intensely uncomfortable in the clean and shiny world of shopping malls and air-conditioned breathtaking buildings. I can see them walking around and complaining why couldn't Dubai be a bit more like Afghanistan. I bet if they found some people drinking raw sewage or a possibility to sleep in a rat-infested bus shelter, that would make their day. Except there aren't any of these things in Dubai.
Lonely Planet writers like to think they are after "authenticity" - unfortunately, in this case they miss the point. Dubai IS about wealth and shine and efficiency, glitter and gold ARE its authentic face. When you think about the attitude of this book, "killjoy" is the world that comes to mind. It is like taking your grumpy granny to see 'The American Pie'. She will just sit there and grumble that young people are not what they used to be.
Try Time Out instead: they have an open mind. Lonely Planet still has to learn that a place does not need to be poor and dirty to be exciting.
Rating: 5
Summary: non-liberal viewpoint
Comment: Perhaps if the reviewer from Seattle had been smart enough to buy the second edition (which doesn't describe the Burj as a casino), he might have found it more useful. It would also be more up to date.
Rating: 1
Summary: Liberals will love this book
Comment: I read this book and found its commentary to be a bit too judgmental for a travel book; there are better books on Dubai as I found, and more up too date. By the way there is no casino at the Burj.
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Title: Culture Shock! United Arab Emirates by Gina L. Crocetti ISBN: 1558686339 Publisher: Graphic Arts Center Publishing Co. Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Lonely Planet Oman & the United Arab Emirates (LONELY PLANET OMAN AND THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES) by Lou Callan, Gordon Robison ISBN: 1864501308 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: June, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title: Spectrum Guide to the United Arab Emirates (Spectrum Guides) by Camerapix ISBN: 1566564263 Publisher: Interlink Pub Group Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Insight Guide Oman and the Uae (Insight City Guides) by Dorothy Stannard, Insight Guides ISBN: 0887292879 Publisher: Insight Guides Pub. Date: July, 1998 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Lonely Planet Middle East (LONELY PLANET MIDDLE EAST) by Andrew Humphreys ISBN: 1864503491 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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