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Title: Disappointing On Several Counts
Review: I bought this book because I wanted to get an overview of contemporary Paris and the title came up when I searched for something on that subject. Reading this to learn about Paris is like reading War and Peace to learn about military uniforms. There isn't much and what there is is trivial at best. Beyond that, Sedaris is a Dave Barry wannabe with anecdotes that may stimulate laughter in conversation but usually "clunk" in writing. His chapter about his brother "Rooster" who has a twenty word vocabulary, almost entirely profane, is painful, even to this six year army veteran from a "line" company.
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