Barry M. (broomist) reviewed on 5/9/2010 + 6 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 2

If you want to "escape" with someone experiencing life in another culture - PLEASE read or listen to "A Year in Provence", which is written by a completely likeable and sympathetic character who understands and appreciates that it is NOT up to him to be superior and condescending to the culture he is experiencing. "Palladian Days", on the other hand, was (apparently) co-written by two of the MOST unlikeable, vain, unsympathetic characters one can imagine.... I kept wishing this WAS a "story", where someone might just swoop in and lay waste to everyone wqith a spray of bullets. But no such luck... it's just an endless loop of people congratulating themselves on their superiority... REQUEST it, and then gift it to someone you don't like!

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