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Title: Bad Times In Buenos Aires by Miranda France ISBN: 0-88001-665-5 Publisher: Ecco Pub. Date: 01 January, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.94 (35 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A City: The Best of Times and the Worst.....
Comment: Having lived in Buenos Aires for two years and loving my stay in Argentina, this book was a difficult one to read. It does not capture the romantic image of Buenos Aires that I like to remember.
Still, it is a very healthy counterpoint that one needs to be aware of if they are going to live in Buenos Aires as something other than a tourist. The chapter on psychoanalysis reflects a special insight on the people who live there. Alas, her observations were something I heard from many Argentines. To this day it is something that I will never understand.
Yes, it is true that a book like this can be written on any city. In fact, I think Los Angeles, New York and other U.S. cities already have their fair share! It is not especially racist, to use one reviewers words, to spread the wealth of seeing the less desirable features of any culture.
After saying all that, I like the country and think that France was a little too negative. Buenos Aires is not a city that tourists will get to know. It is a city where one survives on relationships. As with any place in the world, if you associate with those of a cheerful and positive outlook, your own views will be optimistic. The reverse is also true.
Rating: 3
Summary: Funny, not so bad.
Comment: This book is not as bad as some reviews says. May be is not entirely accurate, but you should keep in mind the period in Argentina (1993-1994, the highest point of the Menem era) and the kind of people she had met (upper middle class). Many observations are really true (bank employees smoking on your face, lng queues for everything, the "cafecito" tradition, the "desaparecidos" stuff, etc.).
Many argentine people could be upset by this book, but it had its moments. You can't take it as sacred word, but it's not "only a bunch of lies" as someone said.
Read it, and read another books on Buenos Aires. And if you can, come to experiment by yourself!!!
Rating: 1
Summary: Do not buy this if you want to learn about Buenos Aires
Comment: After living for many years in Buenos Aires, I've been living in the US for the last 5, I feel with some right to give an opinion about this book. All through the pages you can feel the bad intentions this girl had when wrote it. All the experiences she says she went through are unlikely to happen in everyday life in Buenos Aires. She expresses she lived a nightmare ("bad times") in one of the most friendly and beautiful cities on earth. I have lived in many places around the globe and I haven't found a place where I could have all the fun, make all the friends and fall in love so deeply with a city like in Buenos Aires. I am even planning on moving back there soon. Although with all the problems and contradictions any big city have, is one of the best places to live I found. Beautiful, charming, friendly, cosmopolitan... Is almost stupid thinking that the "unhappy" everyday events she tells, are specific BA problems. Last night I went to the grocery store (here in the US) and I have to stay in line for almost 30 minutes to pay. The phone, electric, etc.. bills I get here are exactly the same I used to get there. Apparently she was trying to meet and get involve with the most strange characters in town. That's not every day BA. It seems like she was in another city, some imaginary place made up buy her mind, all this peppered with a good dose of arrogancy and intentional disaproval. On the other hand she is not well informed at all about specific data about the city and its history. The book is over-charged with inaccurate information. I don't think Buenos Aires is the place for this girl (France), so, don't come back!!!!
For the rest of people that are interested in learning about Buenos Aires, do not waste your time and money reading this . A trip to Buenos Aires will take this book to pieces. God bless Buenos Aires!!!!+
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Title: Imagining Argentina by Lawrence Thornton ISBN: 0553345796 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 September, 1988 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Buenos Aires: A Cultural and Literary Companion (Cities of the Imagination Series) by Jason Wilson ISBN: 156656347X Publisher: Interlink Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Argentina Reader: History, Culture, Politics (Latin America Readers (Paperback)) by Gabriela Nouzeilles, Graciela R. Montaldo ISBN: 082232914X Publisher: Duke University Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Argentina (Culture Shock!) by Fiona Adams ISBN: 1558686479 Publisher: Graphic Arts Center Publishing Company Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Moon Handbooks Buenos Aires (MOON HANDBOOKS : BUENOS AIRES) by Wayne Bernhardson ISBN: 1566915104 Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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