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Title: How can you make Paris dull? Here's how...
Review: I was tricked into buying this book. It is being marketed as a general history of Paris for the traveler or Francophile. Unfortunately, it reads much more like someone's masters thesis. As such, it brings with it all the usual problems of academic writing. Here is a sample sentence:"In perfect anthithesis to this, phantasmagoria was an ideological mechanism of exclusion."Sadly, there's lots more where that came from. This book was not written to entertain, inspire, or inform the reader; it was written to promote the author's erudition.If you're looking for a general history of Paris, I'm sure there are many other options that are more readable.
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