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| AUTHOR: | Paul Buck |
| CATEGORY: | Book |
| MANUFACTURER: | Interlink Publishing Group |
| ISBN: | 156656395X |
| TYPE: | Description and travel, Europe - Spain & Portugal, History, In literature, Lisbon, Lisbon (Portugal), Miscellanea, Popular culture, Portugal, Travel, Travel - Foreign |
| MEDIA: | Paperback |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
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Customer Reviews of Lisbon
Informative and a pleasure to read I have thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. The title doesn't do it justice. It should be calld something like Portugal, a cultural and literary companion. It is true, the focus is on Lisbon, but it goes far beyond. Through the sights of Lisbon, it gives the reader an overall view of Portugal's history, literature, cinema, painting, etc.
There is only one negative aspect. Why are there so many misspellings in the Portuguese words? Not even the name of navigator Vasco da Gama escapes. I almost wish I couldn't speak the language so I would not notice the mistakes and could then give this book more than four stars. Still an excellent book.
Informative but boring
This book contains a lot of information about Lisbon, both as a city to be visited and as a city which has inspired novels, films, etc., and the educated tourist can find this book very useful. Unfortunately, I found the book boring. Somehow, I failed to relate to it. Maybe if I had heard of Tabucci and these other cultural figures, I might have gotten something more out of it. I visited Lisbon in 1966 and enjoyed it, and I am fluent in Portuguese, so the problem is hardly Lisbon. But the book just seemed to me to never get off the ground.