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Use Any Other Guide, 15. Juli 2000
Rezension bezieht sich auf: USA. Reliable, entertaining and packed with information (1st ed) (Taschenbuch)
Do you want to see if America is still out there? Then this is the book to avoid. I've used Lonely Planet Guides before and really wanted to like this book. The truth is, you'd do well to purchase instead Jamie Jensen's Road Trip USA (avail thru Amazon) which is the best guide out there right now.
Typical of Lonely Planet, only very pronounced in this volume, writers' comments are often riddled with sarcasm and condescension, and worse--are too often incorrect. These writers will have you looking for places that may have existed years ago, and it is now clear to me that their reissues are not carefully updated, but reprinted with new covers. If you've used Lonely Planet Guides before, you've probably noticed these qualities, and while a travel guide cannot be perfect in all directives, it surely can be much less rude and lazy than this one. I left their East Africa book in Tanzania as its lack of accurate information was a complete joke, and although the book made for a pretty coaster, it became a burden.
The purpose of a travel guide is to guide readers to highlights of each place and to inform and educate at the same time. One quickly learns to read between the lines (for example, if a particular hotel is given rave reviews, it will probably be crowded by others with the same travel guide), but it is difficult to forgive L.P. writers their holier-than-thou attitude. I found in this volume that they are too quick to insult and degrade even the most sacred places. Stay away from this book--unless you just want to see a lot of pretty pictures, which is the primary reason I gave it the one star. They do make one of the best travel series on televsion. Maybe they should apply some of those talents to their written guides. It's been a long time since I noticed them being conscientious in their travel guides--which is a real shame, especially for such an expensive guide. There are a lot of better, more accurate guides out there.
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Better luck next time, 21. September 1999
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Rezension bezieht sich auf: USA. Reliable, entertaining and packed with information (1st ed) (Taschenbuch)
Admittedly, it's the first time out for a whole-USA guide from those Australian backpackers, but this guide has a long way to go. Fine cultural information, but this book's write-ups are ambiguous at best, treating the best hostels in the USA the same as the very worst. True, these books are accurate, if by accurate one means "not listing any hard information so that the hard information can never be wrong."
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Etwas enttaeuschend fuer einen Lonely Planet Reisefuehrer, 27. April 2000
Von Ein Kunde
Rezension bezieht sich auf: USA. Reliable, entertaining and packed with information (1st ed) (Taschenbuch)
Ein Reisefuehrer ueber die gesamte USA zu verfassen, ist bestimmt nicht eine einfache Aufgabe. Dass man unnoetige und zu genaue Informationen weglassen muss, ist verstaendlich. Die Schwierigkeit liegt genau daran, diese Trennung zu vollziehen. Herausgekommen ist ein Reisefuehrer mit zu vielem "oberflaechlichen" Informationen und dem Weglassen sog. "Geheimtips". Dazu kommt noch, dass ich in Austin, TX durch falsche und schlechte Informationen extrem frustriert war, sodass dieses Buch bestimmt beim naechsten trip zu hause bleibt. Eine Enttaeschung fuer einen Lonely Planet! Es lohnt sich eher, vorher zu wissen, welche Gegend man besuchen moechte und dafuer spezielle Reisefuehrer kauft!
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