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101 Places Not to See Before You Die |  | Author: Catherine Price
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Category: Book
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 17333
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 272
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.2 x 0.9
ISBN: 0061787760
Dewey Decimal Number: 910
EAN: 9780061787768
ASIN: 0061787760
Publication Date: July 1, 2010
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Product Description
Because bad places make good stories The Testicle Festival • Garbage City • Rush Hour on a Samoan Bus • Y our Boss's Bedroom • Ibiza on a Family Vacation • Stonehenge • The Road of Death • A North Korean Gulag • Fucking, Austria • And 92 More! From the Grover Cleveland Service Area to the Beijing Museum of Tap Water to, of course, Euro Disney, 101 Places Not to See Before You Die brings you lively tales of the most ill-conceived museums, worst theme parks, and grossest Superfund sites that you'll ever have the pleasure of not visiting. Journalist Catherine Price travels the globe for stories of misadventure to which any seasoned traveler can relate—including guest entries from writers such as Nicholas Kristof, Mary Roach, Michael Pollan, Rebecca Solnit, and A. J. Jacobs—and along the way she discovers that the worst experiences are often the ones we'll never forget.
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 Hilarious July 7, 2010
Nate Johnson
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I picked this up (while in a friend's bathroom I have to admit) and was so absorbed and amused that a significant amount of time slipped by. It was only when I emerged and saw the questioning stares that I realized how odd it must have seemed for a guest to disappear into the loo and stay there for 20 minutes, occasionally laughing out loud.
If you want a tonic to cure you from the sort of travel writing intended to sell - if you need a gift for a traveler (or a homebody for that matter) - take a look at this.
Very Funny! July 9, 2010
Emily Westin
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
I found this book very engaging and fun to read. I'm especially enamored of the author's fascination with carpets (on subways/hot yoga rooms) and I personally experienced #92 (and wish I hadn't- still living with the consequences).
I think that this book makes the perfect gift, as it will always generate something to talk about! While reading, my husband would often laugh out loud (books don't usually generate that response from him) and I found myself reading sentences aloud to whomever was near me.
All in all, you can't go wrong with this one! (as long as you don't take it too personally, as I think one reviewer may have...
Fun, sassy, and insightful vignettes July 12, 2010
Ellie
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
Price's book is a gem: a fun, spunky, spirited, and very insightful collection of vignettes about places that are (or should be) more notorious than famous. The prose style is clean and charming, the chosen destinations are hilarious and weird in the way that I always enjoy. Usually, I read short story collections over the summer, while I am off traveling, but this book is setting a new standard for reading in the heat: sassy pieces that hover somewhere between travel reflections and meditations on life. Great, great stuff. And it's definitely putting my own relatively minor travel trials and tribulations in proper context!
Fascinating and funny July 13, 2010
D. Cuthbertson (Brooklyn, NY United States)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is the book for the curious-minded, whether you have traveled far and wide, or never leave your bed. Each 1-4 page chapter is hysterical in its own way, and reminded me that we live in a big, weird world. Excellent prose, canny insights, and just damn entertaining. I had a hard time finishing the book - my friends and family members would ask to take a look, read a page or two and then refuse to give it back until they finished. Seriously. The perfect summer book, travel book, gift book.
This book is better than cake! July 13, 2010
Natalie Kittner
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I bought this book on whim (as an avid traveler and lover of all things quirky, I was immediately drawn to the title) and once it arrived I could not put it down. It now lives on my coffee table, and is a constant source of amusement and conversation at dinner parties. It really is the gift that keeps on giving. I even gave a copy to my sister for her birthday!
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