Insight Pocket Guide New Orleans (Insight Pocket Guides)

User Review: - New Orleans: Realistic, not Touristic
This book provides a very realistic - as opposed to the usual touristic - look at New Orleans and inside homes. Of course, some rooms are highly individualistic, even eccentric, but that is what helps make the city unique. Few of the photos could have been shot from a tour bus, or in any other community. I'd guess that this book is owned primarily by New Orleanians & that they are all very happy to have it. I lived in the Crescent City from birth until retirement and these are the first photographs to make me homesick.

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User Review: - More for those who want a great historical perspective
I have been to New Orleans millions of times and this is the best all around book. The author has really, really researched and pulled up ALL kinds of interesting tidbits.
I think that Compass guides in general are the extra travel books one buys. I wanted more than Fodor's has because I already know all the best places to go. I think that she had good choices and you could use it as your only travel guide.
I think some readers were disappointed because maybe they were taken back by the exorbitant prices hotels charge. Hotel-wise , you don't get much for your money unless you go in summer or during Christmas.

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User Review: - Lush and Inspiring
One of my all-time favorite books. The stuff of dreams and nightmares too.

This is an utterly luscious picture book. Chock full of photos of real interiors. Real homes of artists and the creative. Homes of people who love peeling wallpaper and cracked plaster; and especially those who love living in the midst of art works, or deeply personal collections.

The homes of people who love the humid haze, moist clay-scented New Orleans.

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User Review: - Lush and Inspiring
One of my all-time favorite books. The stuff of dreams and nightmares too.

This is an utterly luscious picture book. Chock full of photos of real interiors. Real homes of artists and the creative. Homes of people who love peeling wallpaper and cracked plaster; and especially those who love living in the midst of art works, or deeply personal collections.

The homes of people who love the humid haze, moist earth-scented New Orleans.

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User Review: - Southern style at it's best
This book has great interior pictures of some glorious New Orleans homes. Unfortunately when I've been there, I didn't have the opportunity to go inside to see the many interior styles. This book gives me the opportunity to see the beauty inside, that I've only been able to view from outside. Great book for those of us who love and appreciate the city!

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