1,000 Places to See Before You Die: A Traveler's Life List by Patricia Schultz Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of 1,000 Places to See Before You Die: A Traveler's Life List
Book Review: 1000 places to stay before you're bankrupt
Summary: 3 Stars
This is a great idea for a book, and it is fun. I'm being a bit tough to give it only 3 stars, but after a while it got to me.There are probably about 50 to 100 places in this book that one ought to visit if at all possible. There are also some places that ought to be there, like the Vale of Kashmir, but one would die while visiting them. There are also about 8,765 very expensive hotels to exercise a Platinum card on. She's a traveller who likes her servants elegant and plentiful. I'm sure they're fine hotels, I've known a few of them myself. Still, they're hotels darn it! Not one is worth ten minutes in the Louvre, or a walk in any fine forest.
Some of the places she mentions I knew 20 years ago when they were fresh, now they are well worn and there are different and better alternatives. She also is rather stuck on the northeast.
That said, it is a fun bathroom read for residents and guests. As a travel book it's three stars, as a certain kind of recreation it's 3-4 starts. If you want to travel with it, use the examples as hints, but explore as much around the places she mentions as in them.
Book Review: 1000 places....review
Summary: 4 Stars
Carpe diam, what else do i have to say. This book is an excellent origin from which to decide: To what will I allocate my ephemeral time on earth.Book Review: 1000 x 1000 cheers - This is The Best
Summary: 5 Stars
How glad I was to have overlooked a scathing criticism or two re the author's would-be emphasis on expensive hotels only - were we reading the same book???? What planet do these people live on?? The beauty of this book is that it covers every category or travel destination imagineable - from events to museums, bars to national parks, annual festivals to ancient temples. Are there hotels? Let's hope so, because the author's choice in every other category is so on the dime, you can be sure she has singled out all of the world's best hotels too. Are they expensive? Most are, yes - but where else do you intend to go for your once-in-a-lifetime trip to celebrate a honeymoon, a promotion, an anniversary or your mother's 80th birthday??? Still too expensive? Then go and sit in the lobby, wander the impeccable grounds, take in the white-gloved service with a smile and get a glimpse of the good life and make believe if only for a few hours....then explore the hundreds of other options that will fit a leaner budget and keep you mighty busy and awefully happy for years.The book blew me away - and I thought I had been around the block.
Book Review: 1000 x 1000 kudos from this pleased reader
Summary: 5 Stars
I like to think I've been around the block and yet the possibilities this book offers are mind boggling. This is Schultz's personal life list - it says so right on the cover - so why all the complaints? Show me someone who can't find a few hundred recommendations here to keep them busy and happy for life! For the incredibly obscure to the wonderfully predictable (how can the Grand Canyon not figure on anyone's list??), I can't put put this 1000-page treasure trove down. For armchair meanderings and real vacation planning (this is no dress rehearsal - let's get going!) this book is a life saver to anyone remotely interested in exploring the earth's countless wonders. Thank you Ms Schultz!Book Review: 3.5 stars actually
Summary: 4 Stars
It's a great book for "quick reads" on foreign locations. I just thought I would be more inspired.....The premise is more interesting than the book itself. I guess I was expecting hidden treasures in far off lands or more of an "off the beaten path" type approach. There were jewels, but mostly the same tired attractions. Perhaps this is too ambtious of an idea.