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Summary: Places to see if you're a millionaire or fast food conniseur
Review: Maybe I'm being a little critical, but I was extremely disappointed with the authors selections. She chose many high-end expensive restaurants rather than great historical sites. Charlie Trotter's in Chicago? Why not spend $1000 less to see a ballgame at beautiful Wrigley Field. You'll be able to spend more time there, plus catch a baseball game while you're at it. Also, I was upset to see that a rib restaurant in Tennessee surpassed Rainier National Park or the Olympic Penninsula as a sight to see. What about the salt mines in Krakow or the Alambra in Rhonda? For the author's sake, I suppose you do become wary after the first 500 places. Eventually you want to go to $5000 a night spa in Jackson, Wyoming (yes it is one of the mentioned places to see) and dictate a travel guide from there.
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Summary: Disappointed & Biased
Review: Any book that has 87 pages devoted to sights in the British Isles, 200 to Western Europe, while less than a 100 pages cover all of Asia (including ONLY 12 pages on India and 8 on Turkey) can never claim to be a worldwide guide.This book should be called "1000 Places to see in the Western World ... with some additional visits around the world sprinkled in so I can reach the 1000 number and make the editor happy" Ms. Schultz overlooks so many great sights in the world and even in the U.S. for some just mundane and lame ones (BBQ places in Missouri - come on.) I am sure Ms. S had a tough task - but the least she could have done to her readers is to let them know how biased the book is!
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Summary: Fun, but not practical!
Review: This book is fun to read, but I don't know how practical it is for the average person. While the title says 1000 places to see, I dont' know how many places in her book I would actually want to go to! The author includes a lot of expensive hotels and a lot of overseas touristy destinations. Most people are lucky to afford a few trips to places like that in their lifetime, not a thousand! This book is an interesting read for all, but NOT a guide for those travelling on a budget. That being said, I found the book to be pretty fun and I do hope to visit some of those places before I die! She mentions dozens of gorgeous locations, tons of nice hotels and if I had the opportunity I would love to see them all! I gave the book three stars because while it is an interesting read, it's not practical. Most people cannot travel to all those locations. Also, the author wrote about a lot of locations that may have been fresh and new many years ago, but are now pretty worn out. This is a good "bathroom" book or coffeetable conversation piece.
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Summary: Not bad ... for a to-do list
Review: I was prepared to really dislike this book, if for no other reason than because it takes one of my passions -- travel -- and reduces it to a kind of grocery list. Travel, I have always thought, is about experiencing a different culture and its history and not about checking the most important cathedral or museum in a city off a to-do list. But I must admit this small-but-thick book intrigued me. Most of the criticisms of something like this will be of specific choices the author makes: How could she overlook X? Or what was she thinking when she included Y? And while I admit that I scratched my head at a few curious omissions and chuckled at some of the choices that did make the cut, I must say that overall, the selection is very good. Every traveler or would-be traveler will find selections of interest on its pages, whether they are looking for luxury or natural beauty or history or art or culinary masterpieces or thought-provoking journeys. But I think the real strength of 1,000 Places to See Before You Die is author Patricia Schultz' lively writing. Ms. Schultz has a real gift for description, and her love and enthusiasm for the places she writes about at once manage to excite the reader about the place being described and to give him or her a small taste of it before even diverting the eyes from the page. All that said, I would be disappointed to scan someone else's copy of this book and see places that have been already visited crossed off in red ink or to discover that future trips were being planned to maximize the number of the 1,000 places that can be visited in a short time. I don't think the book should be used like that, but rather as a means to provoke thought and conversation regarding the best of what the world has to offer us by giving us the views held by one person (albeit someone who is extremely well traveled and with unusual writing talent). We'll all come up with our own lists in our heads, lists that may or may not overlap with the contents of this book. And that's something worth being passionate about.
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Summary: Very disappointing book
Review: This is a very disappointing book filled with too many common touristy destinations and too few surprises. The majority of these places are too touristy to warrant the "see before you die" recommendation. What a waste.
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Summary: 1000 places to stay before you're bankrupt
Review: This is a great idea for a book, and it is fun. I'm being a bit tough to give it only 3 stars, but after a while it got to me. There are probably about 50 to 100 places in this book that one ought to visit if at all possible. There are also some places that ought to be there, like the Vale of Kashmir, but one would die while visiting them. There are also about 8,765 very expensive hotels to exercise a Platinum card on. She's a traveller who likes her servants elegant and plentiful. I'm sure they're fine hotels, I've known a few of them myself. Still, they're hotels darn it! Not one is worth ten minutes in the Louvre, or a walk in any fine forest. Some of the places she mentions I knew 20 years ago when they were fresh, now they are well worn and there are different and better alternatives. She also is rather stuck on the northeast. That said, it is a fun bathroom read for residents and guests. As a travel book it's three stars, as a certain kind of recreation it's 3-4 starts. If you want to travel with it, use the examples as hints, but explore as much around the places she mentions as in them.
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Summary: Will Pique The Interest For Those With Wanderlust
Review: A very creative book that is categorized for convenient searching and locating. Most folks understandably, won't have the ability to visit many of these places because of the lack time and a lack of funds. For those with time, the most valuable commodity we humans have, they may find a few of these beautiful places and be able to experience them. For the average American who is alloted only a two-weak "vacation" per year, they will get to scrape the surface with a short-term sound-bite package-tour at best. For the rest, their experience of these awe-inspiring places will remain limited to the coffee table.
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Summary: 1,000 Places to See Before You Die
Review: The book was some what of a let down, places I want to see aren't in the book at all. The problem is each person is different and would like to see different things. If we were all a like this book would be great. Personally I would rather stay right here in America and see all the little out of the way places and have a lot of fun just meeting the people from different parts of America. If you do like traveling over sea's and don't have a computer to really look up places you might be happy seeing, then this book may be for you. The book is written well and does have imformation that you might like to have, but its up to your own taste not someone elses. Larry Hobson-Author "The Day Of The Rose"
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: the book is more like a publicity, contents can be found in any travel website. Besides, it's missing the middle-east region, while concentrating on Europe and America
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Summary: Fun!
Review: This book is downright fun! It's not completely comprehensive; I was surprised to see some places missing, and I think it has too many hotels listed in place of some sights, but it's still great. I will be giving out 6 copies for the holiday season to some of the travelers in my family (and friends). My aunt and I decided to have a contest and compare our lists (there's a checklist in the back) each year to see who's done the most each year. It would also be a perfect college graduation gift for someone who is interested in travel.
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