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Title: louella parsons all over again
Review: I wanted to read this book because the loss of La Fenice was so profound and I wanted to know much more about it. Mr. Berendt unfortunately has written nothing more than an extended gossip column.The book is filled with observations, about people especially, which are either of no interest to anyone but the most mesmerized tourist or useless as anything other than page fillers. He is so taken with the rich and famous that he forgot, at least up to the point at which I gave up, to talk about La Fenice in any meaningful way. It's so nice to know that Woody Allen was fined for trespassing but what's that got to do with the story?Sadly Mr. Berendt is a classic example of an American tourist "going native".
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